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Education and exhibitions
I gained a 1st class BA Fine Art and Art History in 2002 and an MA Fine Art distinction in 2004, and since 2001 have been exhibiting in group and solo shows mostly in Cardiff, North Wales and Cheltenham and also in London, Bath, Cornwall and Connemara, Ireland. Other activities include Arts week residencies at a Shrewsbury primary school, and an illustration commission for a medical publication. Click here for a list of exhibitions.
Practice
Grounded in the British and European landscape tradition, my work consists of translating into an appropriate visual language a felt experience of landscape, describing an experience of light, movement, wind, water, air and space with paint, which has its own complex and enlivening language. For me, painting is as much about touch as vision, as much about feeling and memory as conscious thought and decision. There are no rules except to strive to communicate landscape in its reality - not just how it looks but how it feels, what it is and what it means.
In practice, the joyful and startling business of painting is fairly intuitive and certainly never planned out in detail, sometimes developing very slowly, sometimes progressing in a rush. I use whichever tools and methods suit the painting itself, including dripping, smearing, shoveling, sprinkling and using fingers, spray bottles, rolling pins, rags, sticks and the occasional brush or two!
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