About Me
I’m largely a self-taught artist. When my children were young I attended an evening class at Lichfield College under Mary Griffin and started to experiment with oils when and if time permitted. Over the past four years, I have been able to devote more time to my artistic career. I have held two solo exhibitions at the Brewhouse, been exhibited twice at the RBSA in Birmingham, and last year selected as a finalist for the Broadway Arts Festival. This year I was selected as one of only twenty artists for the Arts Derbyshire Showcase at Masson Mill, as well as being selected for the prestigious Wirksworth festival. I trained under internationally renowned award winning artist Martin Kinnear, completing the Diploma in Oil Painting at the Norfolk Painting School in 2022.
I am drawn to post impressionist art and principally use line and colour to convey my relationship to my subjects. I love the scope of oil paint to create textural effects and find that using brush and scrapers helps exploit that potential. I rarely paint using conventional perspective and am exploring the use of both flat and multiple perspective, incorporating some elements of cubism, in my latest work. I continue to experiment with the boundary between figurative work and abstraction.
Some of the modern day artists I admire include Martin Kinnear, with his novel depictions of the Northern landscape, the late Ivon Hitchens who was inspired like me originally by the West Sussex countryside and Frank Auerbach, whose technique, use of colour and texture are a source of aspiration.
In my leisure time, I enjoy walking and exploring the UK with my family and friends, the hills, mountains and coastline. I wild swim and canoe when it’s not too cold… I have been known to enjoy a glass of wine together with the fun that goes with it.
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