My practice has evolved to include a variety of media. I work with natural inks, watercolours and oils; often combining these with drawn elements, print and collage. Taking a process-led approach through open-ended drawing and painting, my own experience and understanding of nature sustains an individualistic, painterly language. Visualising formal content for abstract work, I allow elements to take their time and rely on my mind’s eye as a guide, unaware of the outcome. Studio experimentation on a range of surfaces generates a family of diverse but connected artworks. This ‘what if?’ process embraces a notion of becoming; something is caught, glimpses perhaps from a kind of reverie, half-dreamed.
Often coupling the familiar with the unfamiliar, the paintings I make can be read as a string of things, as a syntax of forms. Analogous to language; the work occupies the space between word and image, voice and brush-mark, sentence and form.
EDUCATION
1989 - 1990 Abbey Major Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome
1986 - 1989 Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools (Painting)
1983 - 1986 BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at Maidstone College of Art
1982 - 1983 Foundation Course at Epsom College of Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997 One-person show at the Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1995 One-person show at the Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery
One person show at the Plymouth Arts Centre, Devon
1994 The Garden at Night, a one-person show - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
COMMISSIONS
2018 Selected S.E. Artist for Back from the Brink's Community Arts Initiative - Colour in the Margins project
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (Mixed)
2019 Multistorey, work by a trio of painters, Unit 5 Gallery, London
2017 Contemporary Watercolours, Royal Watercolour Society, London
2016 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2015 Maps, Myths and Monsters, Sheppey, Kent
2014 Panel Paintings 2 at the Eagle Gallery, London
2014 Wash, Resort Studios, contemporary artists working with watercolour
2013 Critical Narratives in Colour and Form (2), Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery touring to Amsterdam
2012 The Green Fuse, Arts Forum and Isabel Blackman Galleries, Hastings
2011 Fludde, an art and music festival, various sites, Faversham
2010 Deaths and Entrances, St Mary's Church, Faversham
2010 The Dance Card at LIDO at Electro Studios, St Leonards-on Sea
2009 Three Women Artists at the Fleur de Lys Gallery, Faversham
2006 & 2008 - Artists Open House, part of the Canterbury Festival
2005 Incorrigible, Sentimental curated by Merlin James – six painters at the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Conscious Fiction – four painters at the Eagle Gallery, London
2002 Three Acme Studio Painters at the Vortex Gallery, London
2000 Paint at the Vertigo Gallery, London
Re-Inventing - in conjunction with drawings by the same artists at the Stephen Lacey Gallery
Four Painters at the Nunnery Gallery, London
1999 Pure Paint at the Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
1998 An installation of drawings in disused shop as part of Hidden Art, an annual East London Arts Event
1998-1999 Slow Burn, Meaning and Vision in Contemporary British Art - Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Lancaster Leeds City Metropolitan Gallery
1997-1998 John Moores 20 Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery
1996-1997 ACE! - Arts Council Purchases touring UK exhibition
1996 Two-person show with sculptor Tim Meacham, Hampshire museums
1995-1997 Freedom - touring group show for Amnesty International, as part of their Art and Freedom programme
1995 Oriel Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
1994 Night and Day - Small is Beautiful Part XII, Flowers East Gallery, London
1993 WILD - Six Painters at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Contemporaries I - four painters at the Eagle Gallery, London
The Brick Lane Open - Spitalfields, London
1992 Bingo Bongo - Tower Bridge Piazza, London
A Simple Twist of Fate - Riverside Studios Open, London
1991 Three English Artists - Universita di Pavia, Italy
Young Artists South East organised by South East Arts, shown in Maidstone and Farnham
1990 Rome Scholars 1980-1990 - a retrospective exhibition at the Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art
1989 Leicester Collection for Schools and Colleges - annual exhibition
Into the Nineties - Mall Galleries, London
Barclay's Young Painter of the Year - Finalist, exhibition held at the Royal College of Art
Academy Schools Premium Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
1988 Academy Schools Premium Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts