The coastline of Cornwall has always been my inspiration, the amazing light, the huge and ever changing skies and beautiful dramatic coastlines.

Born in Cornwall in 1977, I grew up in a creative environment and painted from a very young age. I moved to London at 18 to study art at university where I studied a mixture of skills; painting, life drawing, ceramics, and print, geared towards commissions for contemporary spaces.

Since graduating I have focused on painting. I have always greatly admired the Cornish abstract impressionists, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson, whose work draws directly from experiences of a dramatic or calmness in nature and landscape. More recently I have found myself looking at the work of Turner with his amazing sense of light.

My work is rarely an actual place, instead I hope to build an atmosphere in a painting which draws you in and allows you to imagine yourself there, stood on a cliff, a beach or behind the dunes, exposed to the elements and the unpredictability of nature. My paintings are more about the light and the feelings a place can evoke in the viewer, the emotions that a memory of a place and time can stir within. A memory of thoughts and feelings within a landscape, often a special and private moment, where the vastness and beauty of the landscape around you brings a sense of perspective, clarity and calm.

EDUCATION

• 1996–1999 University of Surrey – Art BA (Hons) 

PAST EXHIBITIONS

• 2017 Winter Show at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 All Square at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 Festival at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Winter at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Affordable Art Fair Bristol with Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2016 Affordable Art Fair London and New York City

• 2015 Ongoing, Columbia Road Gallery

• 2015 Cameron Contemporary

• 2015 The project gallery, Arundel

• 2015 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, Battersea

• 2015 West End House Gallery

• 2015 Dunliver, Deal, Kent

• 2014 Ongoing, Egg knightsbridge

• 2015 West End House Gallery

• 2013 Iona House Gallery

• 2013 Gallery at Ice, Windsor

• 2013 20/21 International Art Fair

• 2012 Affordable art fair Hampstead

• 2013 West End House Gallery, Kent

• 2013 Mid Cornwall Galleries, Cornwall

• 2013 Affordable Art Fair Bristol

• 2013 Egg Trading, Knightsbridge

• 2012 Crouch Hill pop up gallery (curated by Hannah Ludnow)

• 2011 Brighton Art Fair

• 2011 Affordable art fair

• 2011 West End Gallery, Kent
   

COLLECTIONS

• Private collections worldwide