The drama of painting outside in the changeable conditions of the British landscape is an inspirational subject, which can be representational of life’s changes and both the mood of the artist and the spectator.

“I paint outside, en plein air, and inside, as a studio painter.  Painting outside allows a greater freedom, placing me within the scene so that even a small painting has a large sense of space.  Inside the studio, matters of memory, painting process, surface and duration take hold.

An en plein air painting can invite a viewer closer to an original event.  How I feel and what I communicate also gets recorded subliminally into the painting. This can go beyond conscious intentions and chosen colours, which allows en plein airs to be more openly interpreted by the viewer.  

Even after the many processes of creation and destruction are made in the studio, key, original on-site marks are left visible through to the final stages, to retain the feeling of being outdoors and as a record of a journey made through multiple layers of translucent and opaque oil paint.”

EDUCATION

• Manchester Metropolitan University — BA Hons 3D Art and Design

• University of Brighton — PGCE PCE

PRIZES AND AWARDS

• 2017 ‘Landscape Painter of the Year’ winner — Sussex Life Magazine

• 2015 Lynn Painter–Stainers Prize shortlist, London

PAST EXHIBITIONS

• 2022 Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

• 2022 Royal Society of British Artists

• 2022 New English Art Club

• 2021 Solo Exhibition, Reflections on Wild Brooks, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 The Colour of Summer, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 - to date Battersea Art Fairs with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Lynn Painter — Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

• 2016 Winter Show at Cameron Contemporary Art 

• 2016 The Colour of Summer at Cameron Contemporary Art 

• 2016 - to date Phoenix Arts Association Open Studios

• 2015 Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

• 2015 Saatchi Art Chief Curator features ‘Sussex Downs Sunset XXVII’ October ‘Invest in Art’

• 2016 Artists’ Open Houses Exhibition, Brighton and Hove

• 2015 Big Heart Charity Art Auction Exhibition, Brighton

• 2015 May Festival Open House

• 2014 ‘A3’ Phoenix Arts Association, Main Gallery

• 2014 Shortlisted for ’20 Painters’ Exhibition regional

• 2004 Exhibition ‘Hang ten’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

• 2001 Solo Show, IO Gallery, Brighton

• 2001 Solo Show, Horsham Arts Centre — Capitol Theatre

• 2000 Solo Show, Horsham Arts Centre — Capitol Theatre

PUBLICATIONS

• Sussex Life, Landscape Painting of the Year interviews 2016 & 2017, article 2019

• Inside Sussex, Interview with artist, 2015

• Art in Brighton, publication 2015
  

• COLLECTIONS

• Private collection, China

• Private collection, Sydney,  Australia