About the Artist

I started painting at the very young age of about six, using inks and watercolours and won my first art competition at the age of seven. Over the years I've worked in various other mediums including chalk pastels and oil paints and I currently work mostly with acrylic paint. Although I began my artistic career in England, where I joined the Bedford Art Society and Ouse Valley Artists, since 1992 I have lived and worked in Graz, Austria. 

 In my paintings I tend to reflect or react to things that surround me, that inspire or impress me. These may be surprisingly mundane when taken at face value, but charged with a unique energy and aesthetic for a particular moment. 

 Figures and form have always caught my attention, as have colour and light. Although I work primarily in a figurative style, my work nevertheless has a certain abstract quality and often contains elements that are unfinished or unresolved. This creates a necessary interaction with the viewer, which ultimately completes the process of the image.

 Over the years I've held several solo exhibitions of my work and some of my paintings have been published in books. My  most recent exhibitions were Still World - which explored the concept of redefining traditional painting genres, treating figures as landscapes or objects as portraits or landscapes, The Old Changing Way - which honoured traditional skills and subject matter and reflected on their current relevance and possible disappearance in the modern world and The Horses Mouth which contained mostly figurative work of plants and anonymous figures.

 In 2023 I exhibited my Portraits of People I Know - 40 portraits of various people from my life, all in the format and all without any context other than the chairs on which they were seated.