Artist’s Statement:

I have spent my life being involved in the making of paintings and drawings. I studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and at The Royal Academy Schools. More recently, for sixteen years, I was involved in running an Art Gallery with my partner. I have written articles for fine art magazines and I was commissioned to produce a book about colour called ‘Mix your own Acrylics’. I have regularly exhibited in London and in galleries and Art Fairs around the country. I was trained in a very traditional ethos, taught to observe carefully and to respond to the wonder of visual subtleties. That training has stayed with me always, I am compelled to look intently and record what I see. My paintings are an exploration of my surroundings and of images I record when travelling, mostly in countries surrounding the Mediterranean. Responding to the excitement of the visual world, the play of light on buildings, the intensity of shadows, the brash colours of man-made objects and the way figures integrate with their surroundings, I produce paintings in which colour is a major factor. I follow themes and my paintings are grouped according to a particular interest at the time.