About Me

My inspiration is drawn from many sources but particularly from images gathered from my travels around the UK, especially to St. Ives in Cornwall. Many of my paintings come from observing shapes within the landscape and seeing how these can progress and to a fully abstract image.  However, I don’t restrict myself to working in one particular medium and continually find myself switching between acrylics, collage and both soft and oil pastels depending on what I’m trying to achieve.

With my purely abstract paintings I don’t have a fixed image in mind at the start, preferring to let the imagery develop through the process of painting. Brushes, sticks, fingers and thumbs scrape, score and scratch marks onto the surface. I continually redraw, rearranges and obliterate passages of work to achieve a balance of colour and form. The end result is what’s important and I’ll  use collage, mixed media, scraping, drawing with sticks – anything tottery and achieve a spontaneous and lively painting.

I am a member of The Royal Society of British Artists, The Pastel Society and I am a Past President of Manchester Academy of Fine Art