As a formalist abstract painter I work intuitively throughout the creative process until each painting is resolved.  I love to combine painting, stitch and collage, including recycled elements and found objects. I choose from materials and techniques I am powerfully drawn to for each moment, including my starting point.

“I always intend to be true to who I am in my paintings.”

Spatial relationships are important to me and which depict' inside and outside' spaces. These metaphorical spaces are often represented through geometric shapes, akin to passageways, openings and doorways. Drawn line often links spaces and places together, which hold narratives of experience and memory, strength and fragility and 'states of being'. Using a layering process to build rich and visceral surface qualities and which portray a sense of lived histories and emotional and spiritual depth.

I hope for the viewer to feel emotion and be drawn into each space inside my paintings.

EDUCATION

• 2009  Sculpture NCFE Certificate, Brighton
• 2001   SRC Printmaking Certificate, Northbrook College, Worthing
• 2000  7307 C & G.FE Teacher Training, Brighton
• 1998   First Class (Hons) BA Fine Art, Bishop Otter University Chichester
• 1995   Art & Design Foundation, Northbrook, Worthing
   

EXHIBITIONS

• 2018 Dome, Festival Brighton, Creative Future
• 2018 Festival Show, Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove
• 2017 All Square, Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove
• 2014 -16 Winter Show, Summer Show, Chelsea Art Fair, Festival Shows, Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove
• 2014-16Thomas & Paul Gallery, London
• 2013-15 Affordable Art Fairs, Bloomsbury Art Fairs, London, Hamburg Art Fair, The Art Collective
• St Anne's Galleries, including '3 man show', Lewes
• Chapel Royal, Brighton
• Bellis Gallery, Brighton
• Tight Modern Touring Show and Impact Art Fairs, Creative Future
• Art Liberating Lives, Mall Galleries, London
• Cornerstone Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall
• New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
• Gallery 23, Lancaster
• Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold
• Arts and Business, Brighton
• Star Gallery and HQ Gallery, Lewes  
• Selected 50over50National Arts Competition, Brighton
• Gallery Fifty Eight, Northampton
• Gallery One, Barnes, London,
• ROI, Mall Galleries, London
• Sussex Open, Brighton

solo shows

• 2015 'West Pier Art', Brighton
• 2014 'Dwellings', Thomas & Paul Gallery, London
• 2007 Pelham House, Lewes

SELECTED PRIZES AND AWARDS

• 2015 'West Pier Art', Individual Award, Arts Council England
• 2012 Prize for 'Red Crucifixion', Kress Project, Georgia Museum of Art, US
• 2004 'Art Development', Individual Award, Arts Council South East
• 2002 'Art & Health Research', Individual Award, Arts Council South East

SELECTED PROJECTS

• Tutor, Drop-in workshops, Crawley. Peer Mentor/Recovery College - Creative Future
• Judge for Tight Modern Touring Exhibition, Creative Future
• 'The Journey' Talk and Exhibition at Chapel Royal
• Talks, Brighton, 'Meet the Artist' with Creative Future
• 'West Pier Art', Community Art Collaboration & Exhibition, funded by Arts Council England
• International Art-camp Residency & Group Exhibition, Hungary