My oil paintings explore the boundaries between memory, imagination, and place. As a man in midlife, I strive to generate sublime expressions of place, as an antidote to obscurity. I seek to build narratives of hope through sensitivity, colour and visual storytelling.

Influenced by the lyrical colour worlds of artists such as Howard Hodgkin, Brian Cook, Nicholas Party, the calm compositional restraint of Algernon Newton and idealised terrains found in animated sitcoms like Family Guy and The Simpsons, I incorporate bold flat colours, stylised forms, and a sense of playful absurdity. Think Hockney reimagined by Stewie Griffin: colourful, simplified, yet an emotionally escape. These works offer a layered reading - superficially light, but grounded in quiet seriousness.

My painting practice is a negotiation between colour composition and a push and pull of perspective. I build each work through layering, erasing, and reworking as I respond to the evolving surface. Alongside oil, I often introduce florescent base layers of acrylic that posh rendered elements to the forefront. The result is a surface where flatness meets depth, and synthetic colour carries emotional resonance. My aim is in perfecting a single image, allowing the viewer a repeatable experience aimed to have the same emotional response each time, no matter how many times they view the work.

Ultimately, my paintings are about exploration - of both an artificial world and the inner one. I want viewers to feel a sense of curiosity and otherness, to be drawn into spaces that feel at once elusive yet playful, sincere yet abstract.

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

• Form Gallery, Nailsworth, England – from September 2021
• Sherston Arts Festival, Sherston, England – November 2021
• The Pound Arts Open Exhibition, Corsham, England – December 2021
• John Bowen Gallery, Malmesbury – March/April 2022
• Caerbladen Gallery, Malmesbury – August 2022
• Spencer Gallery, Tetbury – September 2022
• Caerbladen Gallery, Malmesbury – March 2023