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About my Work:
My work is inspired by the natural and agricultural landscape. I work in oils with an interest in realistic detail combined with a lyrical response to atmosphere, texture and colour harmonies.
I am mainly self taught and have been developing my art work from my early twenties alongside other work. I find landscape painting a really great way to connect with the inspiration of the natural world, so it is always a source of excitement and delight.
Current Projects:
I enjoyed doing lots of outdoor sketching back in the Spring and Summer of 2025. Presently I keep seeing the possibilities of the Fenland areas around Cambridge - you don't have to go far out of town to get into some incredible areas with lodes, dykes and huge views of sky - whatever the season. East Anglia is going to be featuring large for me in upcoming years.
Its also been great to work on more paintings of the Picos mountains recently, as well as challenging. I have been aiming at qualities relating to atmosphere and the quality of light and colour.
In the New Year I'm planning more ongoing investigations into my personal imaginative landscape - these don't normally make it onto my website - but I have a sense of things building, which might form into something worthwhile at some future point!
Other Interests:
I have an ongoing dedication to writing - trying fiction in a variety of forms and also poetry; I debate occasionally studying more as I have a lot of interest in history and politics as well as philosophies of life. I also practice a Japanese massage form called 'shiatsu'; which I began on a whim and then fell in love with, having been interested in Chinese medicine, in acupuncture and receiving shiatsu, and also forms of body awareness which link into it like tai chi. chi gung and yoga.
Art and all of this, for me is about connecting to all that is beautiful on this wonderful planet - which in a human world of far too much fear and conflict is ever necessary.
Cambridge University: English Literature BA The City Lit, London: Foundation Art The London School of Printing: Post Grad Diploma in Publishing Heatherleys Art College: Portraiture Course Cheltenham College of Art: BA Drawing Module Stroud College: Life Drawing Open College of Arts: Certificate in Drawing and Painting
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