A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Background
I am a UK based artist living in SW London. I have returned to art after a rather long hiatus working as a broadcaster.
I create art as a response to the noise in my head. Art brings me space to find focus for my overwhelm and at other times quiet from it. I try to extend that possibility to the viewer through my work.
My previous background is chemistry and materials engineering. I retain the desire to take a material and develop it beyond its prescribed use in my art. I am interested in pushing performance and combining properties to new effect.
I have been very inspired by the work of Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha and their continual evolution of process.
ABOUT MY PROCESS
My Work
In my most recent pieces I have primarily worked with oilpaint, inks, screenprint and acrylic spray. My substrates have ranged across a variety of papers, plastic films, wood panels and fabric. Play and experimentation is the driver for the evolution of every work. I may start with a ‘plan’- it rarely works and I rarely stick to it.
I like to find different viewpoints as I develop themes. I spent time studying aerial and street views on Google maps as I began my ‘Division’ series. My focus then pulled out to the lines drawn by the routes, shapes formed and interplay of colour and texture.
Elements which strengthened in the ‘Division’ series, colour and line, then lead into the ‘74’ body. I pushed further into sculptural forms, stronger representation of line and shapes.
Typography and dual meaning of simple words also started to play over my themes. It’s different for everyone and context is everything. My text pieces exist at the viewers interpretation, but please know that humour is always at the heart of me!