artist’s statement

My work is an exploration of deep time and the deep future, inspired by Romantic painting, folk stories and myths, and geological treasures hidden in the earth.

In these imagined, abstracted landscapes I explore the notion of story telling and myth making, wrapped in distant timescales that I am pulled towards, no doubt because I find them impossible to comprehend.  Recurring motifs of caves, fossils, bones - remnants of early human or Neanderthal life - allude to the past, whilst a deep future, post human, is imagined through trace fossils of the Anthropocene. 

The landscapes hold strong allusions to human bodies, inferring a sense of transference through the land; bodily shapes are buried in the folds of the mountains or the crevices of the rocks.  The cave as a place of refuge, or entrapment, of tunnels leading into the dark void, being swallowed up into the earth - these concepts have a psychological power in my work.  The repeating symbols used in these vistas serve as a magical incantation, like cave paintings, to reach for the sublime in a chaotic present. Folk stories and myths are imagined and then realised between the visual work and the titles; for me these are otherworldly, ethereal places that represent an invisible world between what we think happened in the past, and what may come to pass in the future.

CV

Education

2022-2023: Turps Banana Correspondence Course

1998: Kingston University: BA Hons Painting

1994: Buckinghamshire College of Art and Design - Foundation in Art and Design

Exhibitions

2024 Inspiration from the Otherworldly, College of Psychic Studies

2023/24 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio

2023 Winter Lights, Fronteer Gallery

2023 We Are The Witches, House of Smalls

2023 Do Not Swallow, Safehouse 1 & 2

2023 ASP: A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery

2023 Bucks Open, Discover Bucks

2023 Mud, For You, Fitzrovia Gallery

2022 British Painting 3, Bermondsey Project Space

2022 Chilterns Landscapes, Wycombe Museum

2020 Made in Venus, the Tub, Hackney

2020 Made in High Wycombe: Furniture, Wycombe Museum

2019 Bucks Arts Week open studios

2018 Bucks Arts Week open studios

2018 DAFT, Wycombe Arts Centre

2018 Collaboration with Wycombe Museum

2017 DAFT, Wycombe Arts Centre

2004 Open studios at ACME studios, Bethnal Green

2001 Interiors; solo show at the Wycombe Swan Theatre

1998 Recent graduates, Old Fire Station, Kingston

1997 Group show, Facultade de Bellas Artes, Pontevedra