About
The starting point for all my artwork stems from a lifelong interest in perceptions and memories of colours. Early childhood memories of South America and since then living in England influence discrete explorations of the vibrant and the muted.
There are two strands to my work: painting on paper or canvas without imagery or abstraction, having devised a set of parameters or pre-determined rules while allowing for the inevitable chance occurrences when using paint, and responsive works ranging from embroidering words on coat linings to burning all my dream diaries and displaying the ashes in glass cylinders. In these conceptual works, colour choices are still a prime consideration.
I paint on traditional supports in a variety of media, starting with a grid of repetitive patterns that are then lost to view in subsequent overpainting, or using the texture of paper as a ground for the patterns that emerge, in order to give a sense of depth to the resulting monochrome
Some of the many artists who continue to influence me are:
- Yves Klein
- Brice Marden
- Spencer Finch
- Roni Horn
- Rebecca Salter
- David Batchelor
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BA(Hons) 2009 and MFA (2010) Bath Spa University
numerous group exhibitions 2001- the present day. The most recent are:
2015 Isolation 44AD, Bath
2015 North The Glassworks, St. Helen’s, Lancs
2014 It was Amazing 44AD, Bath
2014 Deck The Walls 44AD, Bath
2014 Freud’s House Peggy Jay Gallery, Hampstead
2013 Migration American Museum in Britain
COLOUR MATTERS solo exhibition 8-13 Sept. 2015 44AD, Bath
Some of my paintings are currently on display in Verve, Walcot Bldgs., London Rd, Bath www.verveliving.uk
Represented in private collections in the UK