ABOUT
The current work is a direct response to observations of the natural world and still life arrangements recorded through the artist’s own photography. The photographs provide the artist with permanent imagery with which to work, placing strong emphasis on its aesthetic value as it is directly responsible for the finished painting. This method is also accountable for the strong photographic elements within each piece, most notably the varied focal lengths.
The aim of each landscape painting is to challenge the observer into accepting an unaccustomed view of nature and appreciating it in a way that would not have been considered before. The size of the paintings and the ‘upfrontness’ of the subject introduce an element of confrontation. This, coupled with the extra charge of colour, makes the familiar shapes become almost seductive against their deep backgrounds. The still life paintings are carefully detailed with focus placed on shadow and light, creating calm and contemporary images.
TECHNIQUE
Oil paint is applied from one side of the canvas to the other in one sitting allowing for the boundaries of the colours to blur into each other. With this technique it is imperative that the paint is applied wet on wet. Watercolour brushes are used to provide finer brush strokes resulting in near faultless photo-realism.
EDUCATION
Bath Spa University College BA Hons Fine Art Painting 1st Class 1999-2002
Kent Institute of Art & Design Foundation Studies in Art & Design 1998-1999
Catalogue of Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
Artologie, Cuckfield, Feb 2024
Winter Show 23/24, Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, December 2023
Land Sea Sky, Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, July – Sept 2023
Festival Show, Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, May 2023
Affordable Art Fair London, Art8star, March, 2017
Group Winter Show, Linden Hall Studios, December 2022
Winter Show, Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, December 2021/22
Summer Show, Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, August 2021
Affordable Art Fair London, Art8star, March, 2017
Affordable Art Fair London, Red Gallery, September 2009
Open Studios, Dulwich Festival, May 2009
The Picture Room, London, August 2005 – 2007
Affordable Art Fair New York, Clapham Art Gallery – October 2005
Flora and Forna, Byard Art, Cambridge – May 2005
Affordable Art Fair London, Mark Jason Fine Art – March 2005
Blur, Mark Jason Fine Art, London – October 2004
Affordable Art Fair New York, Mark Jason Fine Art – September 2004
Summer Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge – June 2004
Art London, Mark Jason Fine Art, Chelsea – June 2004
Affordable Art Fair Bristol, Mark Jason Fine Art – May 2004
Affordable Art Fair London, Mark Jason Fine Art – March 2004
Art London, Mark Jason Fine Art, Islington – January 2004
Gallery Artists and New contemporaries, Mark Jason Fine Art – October 2003
McGraw-Hill Publishers, London – September 2003
Fresh Art ’03, London – July 2003
Affordable Art Fair Bristol, Rebecca Wordsworth – May 2003
Affordable Art Fair London, Rebecca Wordsworth – March 2003
Babington House, Somerset – September 2002 – March 2003
Dovedale Studios, Kent – November 2002
Chromos Gallery, Canterbury – July 2002
Bath Spa University College – June 2002