PERSONAL STATEMENT
Currently I work as a freelance creative partner within various settings, introducing art into environments where it can promote and stimulate a sense of exploration and fun and learning. Recently, I worked very closely with a wonderful and inspiring disabled artist and facilitated a large body of oil paintings which can be found in private and public collections.
Many of my paintings will develop as a visual stream of consciousness, where expressive and vigorous applications of paint suggest and provoke images which once worked on will in turn tease out new ideas. It is a discovery of motifs , an art of hide and seek. Taking reference from the real world, sketching and observation are essential elements of developing ideas but the memory of the 'scene' is the most stimulating and authentic reference in much of my work. I tend to work in series and often the work is developed in both an expressive and symbolic way.
CV
Education
Jan 2010-June 2010
City and Guilds Life Drawing
Aug 2009-Mar 2010
Certificate in interpersonal skills for volunteers, Lampeter, University of Wales
Apr 2009 Community Arts Training Scheme (CATS)
2005-2008 City and Guilds life drawing and portraiture
2000-2002 Open College of the Arts
ABOUT THE GALLERIES
ROCK SEA AND SKY
New work for a solo exhibition
Light has always driven my work with seascapes figuring strongly and for this exhibition the special memories that Malta holds for me come to the fore. Colour, vivid contrast, mood, an almost other worldliness are what these memories inspire and are reflected in the choice of technique from highly expressive to more muted. Rock, Sea and sky is a celebration of the elements that so express the character of the islands.
RED HORSE SERIES (Series 1)
These paintings are an ongoing project. The red horse is central to each painting with the merry-go-round also making an appearance in most if not all the paintings. The underlying theme is about freedom and each work will have its own deeper meaning.
Series 2
A further development of the horse theme including monochrome paintings.
SERIES 3
A new series of paintings with the horse as a central theme.
GALLERY 2
A variety of different subjects.
SACRED ART
This portrait was commissioned for the canonization of Blessed Jeanne Jugan, which took place on the 11th of October 2009.
It now hangs at St Peter's Residence, Vauxhall, London.
Jeanne Jugan was a remarkable woman who devoted her life to the care of the elderly and infirm. She showed deep compassion for the elderly and from the moment she took in an abandoned elderly lady called Anne Chauvin and looked after her in her own home, the order which was to become known as the Little Sisters of the poor had begun and continued to grow all over the world.