Born: Bradford on Avon

Education
1979-82 Portsmouth Art College – BA Illustration
1987 Elected Member of Chartered Society of Designers

Collections
The Cadbury family collection
National Maritime Museum

Awards
2006 Winner of painting category, National Maritime Museum
2008 Joe Acheson Painting Award, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
2008 Winner of the painting prize, Wessex Medical Trust

I am interested in figurative works and paint mainly from life studies. I paint as an exploration of what I see in front of me and by recreating the spirit of the model and the pose.

I have developed an individual approach to figurative painting and I am committed to exploring the experimental potential embedded within traditional representation. I prefer to draw or paint from life choosing a reductive process to structure and abstract images such that information is lost in translation; estranged from their original context or meaning and deliberately falling short of figurative resolve and cohesion. In many ways, the images can appear more like elements in a still life.

My subject matter is chosen from figures, portraits, interiors and the occasional architectural configuration. My exploration in these various genres, scales, and tonalities is based largely on my interest in the history of European art.