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Exhibitions To be confirmed - at the end of the year my work will be shown in Baskerville House, which is a new exhibition space in central Birmingham, this is organised by TargetFollow. One drawing in the "Stretching a Line" show at the Digby Gallery, Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Two paintings in the Colchester Fine Art Open 2008 - at the School of Art, Colchester Institute. Seven large paintings at the Life Cafe in Colchester. Working on a series of woodcuts and a new series of paintings for a show in June 2009 at Cuckoo Farm Studios.
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| To contact either email or write to the address below. All work is for sale. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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About me The painting process is like a ritual that is very gradually transformed over time and reflects the pressures of my everyday existence. The process of my abstract paintings is akin to forms emerging from a blank slate or 'tabula rasa'. Natural forms such as shells inspire the forms and shapes and dried husks that twist and undulate and these shapes form a vocabulary that has been built up over time. The work engages with the unconscious and I find ways of letting the forms flow from a constant engagement with the surface of the canvas. Working in a way that tries to conjure up ideas I usually start with no clear idea for a painting but rather look to my last work or works in a series for a direction. The latest paintings are formed by taking away paint from a ground colour with a brush thus creating lines which intertwine into shapes and flowing forms. Painting around them with white primer then isolates the shapes - so there is a figure/ ground relationship. This process has come about through doing a series of woodcuts where I am cutting away the surface and revealing lines on the wood, which will be printed. Previous work has involved
using chicken wire as a mask to paint through with gloss rollers or working
intensely with an dip ink pen on paper, conjuring up nests and swirling
forms that eat back into themselves. Working close up to the surface not
totally aware of how the work is progressing as a whole and then stepping
back to see what has materialised and then stepping back to rework and
tease out structures.
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