ARTIST STATEMENT

“I am an oil painter and printmaker who draws constantly in a sketch book. My work reflects my love of nature in all forms.  The land, water, rocks, birds and tiny insects all find their way into my work, either in a painting or an etching. My paintings are mainly of landscapes in particular, British landscapes. Memories of our misty, dewy landscape made me homesick whist living in the high desert of New Mexico and I painted it to ease my longing for home.  It may be a fleeting moment that captures my eye or a mood that I wish to evoke, and even though I start with a literal place, the painting eventually takes on a life of it’s own.

EDUCATION

1972 -73      Loughborough College of Art & Design, UK – Foundation Course

1973 -76      Hornsey College of Art & Design, UK – BA Hons

1985 -86     Middlesex Polytechnic, London, UK – Postgraduate Certificate of Education

1998            Fredricksburg Artists’ School – workshop with Michael Workman

2001            Fechin Art Workshops – workshop with Sherrie McGraw

2003           Great River Art Institute – workshop with Stuart Shils

2011 -14       MA Printmaking at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK