Based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire I have been painting professionally for five years. Previously I was an interior textile designer having completed a degree in Surface Pattern Design in Stoke-on-Trent in 1990. I have exhibited and sold my work throughout the North and also at such events as the Affordable Art Fair in London. I am now actively seeking to exhibit more widely.
My inspiration is primarily landscape and the human imprint on it. This may be in the form of a building or street furniture or something more transitory such as a bicycle or a collection of farm machinary. I aim to reflect the quintesential identity of a place and to interpret this with a bold, graphic style to create maximum impact.
I create paintings in my mind wherever I go and I love to visit new places to decifer their intrinsic characteristics whether it be a European city or English suburbia. The landscape of my local Calderdale however remains a powerful source of inspiration to me - I am drawn to contrast and there is none greater than that between the melee of the town and the captivating wide open space of the elevated landscape.
Contrast is something which carries through my work. I create contrast through paint application by differing texture, opacity, hue or tone. Photographic imagery now features as an integral part of my paintings. Digitally altered fragments of my own photographs are collaged harmoniously with the paint to create yet more contrast.
My inspiration is primarily landscape and the human imprint on it. This may be in the form of a building or street furniture or something more transitory such as a bicycle or a collection of farm machinary. I aim to reflect the quintesential identity of a place and to interpret this with a bold, graphic style to create maximum impact.
I create paintings in my mind wherever I go and I love to visit new places to decifer their intrinsic characteristics whether it be a European city or English suburbia. The landscape of my local Calderdale however remains a powerful source of inspiration to me - I am drawn to contrast and there is none greater than that between the melee of the town and the captivating wide open space of the elevated landscape.
Contrast is something which carries through my work. I create contrast through paint application by differing texture, opacity, hue or tone. Photographic imagery now features as an integral part of my paintings. Digitally altered fragments of my own photographs are collaged harmoniously with the paint to create yet more contrast.