About the artist

ARTIST STATEMENT

My oil paintings explore the boundaries between memory, imagination, and place. As a man in midlife, I grapple with a diminishing sense of self and relevance. I strive to generate sublime expressions of place, as an antidote to obscurity. I paint instinctively and use the process of painting to experience my feelings. I seek to build narratives of hope through sensitivity and visual storytelling.

Influenced by the freedom and energy within J M W Turner’s storm paintings, Peter Doig’s dreamy landscapes, and Maki Na Kamura’s dismantled figurative scenic views, I seek not to represent reality, but reflections of emotions. In my work, the inner world is made visual through place and set often within English country scenes or more abstract landscapes.

My painting practice is a balance between control and spontaneity. Through the push and pull of pigments, layering, erasing, and reworking, I allow the act of painting itself to guide the evolution of each piece. I often include other rendered layers to influence my direction, sometimes photographic, other times painted brushstrokes or visual textures to build depth and narrative. Sometimes I am less concerned with perfecting a singular image than with allowing the viewer to experience the traces of process, of time, and of thought that emerge on the canvas. Layering creates depth—both literal and metaphorical—where past, present, and future collide.

Ultimately, my paintings are about exploration—both of the natural spaces we inhabit and the inner landscapes of memory and imagination. I want viewers to feel a sense of curiosity, of otherness, to be drawn into these spaces that feel elusive yet familiar.

 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