Since my training at Edinburgh College of Art I have been inspired by nature. My mission explores the emotional symbolism of my subject matter and seeks to distil the image to enhance this. I paint both two dimensional and three dimensional paintings made of cut-out MDF and painted in acrylic paint. I am passionate about working from nature and choose specific locations and either collect reference on site or use photographic reference.
I am a slow meditative painter. This process puts me in touch with the healing spirit I inherited from the medics in my family. I want my work to help people find an inner sense of peace and connection with nature's energy. My deep ambition and hope is that my work can ease the wounds of living, through inducing calm and peaceful reflection. Finding the meaning and the link between the inner and the outer world is key to everything which inspires me. Without this there is nothing to communicate that will touch other people's spirit. I have found that interpreting nature is the best vehicle for me to achieve this.
Over the past few years I have developed a series of Free Standing 3D paintings to challenge the tradition that paintings have to be 2 dimensional rectangular images hanging on walls. I cut 3D structures which sit on especially designed plinths so they are seen at specific heights and in perspective. I am developing hanging paintings and 3D floor paintings as well as irregular shaped paintings for walls and shelves thus considering all the opportunities to place paintings in different parts of an environment.
I exhibit in UK, Europe and USA. I won a solo exhibition in London a few years ago on the theme of H2O and have four future exhibitions planned on the South Downs and our local coast in East Sussex.
