I feel most at home when I’m by the sea. I’m attracted to the wild North Coast of Cornwall and West Penwith. I love the drama and the ancient feel of the landscape.
I feel most at home when I’m by the sea. I’m attracted to the wild North Coast of Cornwall and West Penwith. I love the drama and the ancient feel of the landscape.
I grew up Lincolnshire, by the sea in Skegness. Many happy hours were spent on the beach, playing in the sand dunes, making dens, collecting fossils and shells. I always had a love of drawing and painting and from a young age would confidently declare ‘I am going to be an artist!’
I completed a Degree in Fine Art and Social Context at UWE Bristol. Since graduating I have made the South-West my home settling in Frome, Somerset. I work from a studio in the Silk Mill, a beautifully converted building in the centre of Frome. I am also a fully qualified Adult Education tutor and teach some classes and occasional workshops.
My abstracted landscape paintings seek to explore the spirit, features and qualities of the places I am instinctively drawn to. By painting these places, I come to understand and know them on a deeper level. My paintings include remembered experiences, sounds, colour, movement. A recreation of place which is deeply personal. My work begins from drawing in situ. These drawings, along with memories are the starting point for the paintings. I work with mixed media. Acrylic paint usually combined with collage, pencils, oil pastels and water-soluble crayons. I like to create uplifting paintings, full of colour, texture, and movement. A celebration of well-loved places which I hope resonates with the viewer.
Mixed media on cradled board
61 x 91 cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
39 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
37 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
37 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
39 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
43 by 34cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
40 by 33cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
39 by 34cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
40 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
38 by 32cm
Mixed media on paper. St. Ives style frame
39 by 31cm
Mixed media on cradled board
40 by 30cm
Mixed media on canvas
100 by 30cm
Mixed media on canvas, Framed
30 x 60 cm
Mixed Media on canvas
40 x 120 cm
Mixed media on board – Framed
20 x 61 cm
Mixed media on cradled board
91 by 61cm
Mixed media on board – framed
30 by 19cm
Mixed Media On Paper
30.48 x 24.13 cm
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Tuesday: 11 am –5 pm
Wednesday: 11 am –5 pm
Thursday: 11 am –5 pm
Friday: 11 am– 5 pm
Saturday: 11 am– 5 pm
Sunday: 11 am– 4 pm