I like to explore a range of styles and techniques but there is always a human element in my work, whether through digital, drawing or painting.
Ranging from the conventional portrait or layered image to a more narrative approach the main purpose is to create art that has beauty, requires investigation and generates an emotive response.
Realism is fundamental to all my work and I revel in details and subtle changes in colour and tone.
2018 Institute of East Anglian (IEA) Open Exhibition 2018 20th - 30th October Exhibited : 'Amalgam 2' - Best in Show Exhibited : 'Amalgam 3' 2018 Cambridge Drawing Society 2018 Autumn Art Exhibition - The Leys School, Cambridge, 21st - 27th October 2018 Exhibited : 'Amalgam 1' Exhibited : 'Amalgam 4' Exhibited : 'Wistful' 2018 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA): Prize Exhibition - 10th May - 23rd June Exhibited : 'Opi in Dyl's Hat' 2018 Cambridge Drawing Society 2018 Spring Art Exhibition - The Pitt Building, Cambridge, 14th - 21st April 2018 Exhibited : 'Dylan 3' Exhibited : 'Dylan 4' Exhibited : 'Atonement 1' 2018 Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2018: Longlist 'Dylan 3' 2018 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA): Open all Media Exhibition 2018 1st - 30th March Exhibited : 'Stripes 2' 2018 Artists and Illustrators. Artists of the Year Award 2018 18th - 24th February, Mall Galleries Exhibited : 'Sarah' 2017 Institute of East Anglian (IEA) Open Exhibition 2017 21st - 31st October Exhibited : 'Dylan 3' Exhibited : 'Dylan 2' 2017 United Society of Artists - 94th Open Exhibition 2017 5th - 9th September c 2017 Ken Bromley Cover Competition 2017: Shortlist 'Dylan 4' 2017 Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2017: Longlist 'Phoebe' 2017 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA): Open all Media Exhibition - 16th March - 8th April Exhibited : 'Atonement 1' 2016 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA): Prize Exhibition - 4th May - 4th June GMC Trust First Prize: 'Sarah' Also exhibited : 'Waiting' 2015 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA): Portrait Prize Exhibition - 16th July - 22nd August Exhibited : 'Phoebe'
Observation of natural processes initiates investigations through drawing or painting.
These visual starting points can be anything from the simple fading of a flower with time to the complexity of a weather pattern that can move or shape.
This forms a framework to build and develop pictoral tales.
In the past I have created work in both drawing and painting which interlace the natural world with portraiture.
Since retiring from teaching I have focused much more on portraiture with the desire to suggest something more than just the visual record.
