​'Whatever the subject matter, be it landscape or still life – whether painting in oils or working on paper with gouache and pastel – my work is driven by a love of nature, of the seasons, the weather, the patterns in landscape, the atmosphere and the light.

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The very process of oils, or of gouache and pastel, enables me to build my paintings up in considered layers – I start with an idea, but the process sometimes leads me elsewhere. I work less and less from the subject, more frequently from photos, memories, drawings, videos – I find that working this way gives me the freedom to interpret the subject from a distance, not just compositionally but in terms of atmosphere and feeling. My work appears representational but it is always a mix of the literal and the imagination'.

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Elected a Member of the Royal Society of Birmingham Artists (RBSA) in 2015, I have exhibited at many galleries including The Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 (A & K Wilson Gallery Award 2011) 1999 and preselected 2022, 2017; The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Open and Prize Exhibitions (Highly Commended 2017/2012/2010); The Royal Institute of Painters in Oils; The Bankside Gallery, London; The Gallery Cork Street, London; The Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden; John Noott Gallery, Broadway.

 

I live and work in Warwickshire.

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I am very pleased and delighted to be represented by Caroline Gillatt at her lovely new gallery in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire:

 

 

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