Artist Statement

As a fine art painter and printmaker, I work in a variety of media, including oil paint, collage and gouache.    

My abstract, loosely geometric paintings reference an internal world of land/sky/seascapes conjured in daydreams and imagination through years of walking and drawing by the sea. I’m interested in the implicit invitation offered by every vista; its prospects, hazards and serendipities, its potential for reverie, unease or enchantment. I seek visual equivalents for these journeys of the imagination.  

Formal influences include synthetic cubism and the St Ives School.  I’m fascinated by the tension between geometric forms and expressive, organic qualities of brush stroke and freehand drawing that potentially disrupt their orderly disposition. I continue to explore the interplay between the flat picture plane and the ambiguous and inviting kind of pictorial space described by Ben Nicholson (Horizon, 1941) as ‘an imaginative world in which one could live’.