About Me
I have been influenced by pattern, and particularly by the play of light within the natural world. I like to explore negative spaces in their own right, as an unseen landscape. Watching the progression of man-made structures crumbling, and the encroachment of the earth/plant realm upon them continually animates me.
After living for many years in North Wales and Donegal, I have become absorbed by dry stone walls and what I would call the ‘hidden landscapes’ sequestered within them.
My pictures are often viewed through barbed wire/old windows and broken walls that enhance the perception of looking out into an unencompassed vista of wild impelling wilderness. When I come across, for example, light, lingering on an abandoned old building or remnant of such, I have a desire to communicate something of the process of disintegration and the beauty of decline.
I find the medium of watercolour most suited to my approach; almost always bending the rules in order to find ways of expressing texture and form. I am self taught; having attended various courses with the renowned Welsh artist Maurice Greenwood RCA in the early 1990s.
Thereafter, I ran an art group for school students, and alongside my own developing work, I obtained many commissions from both private sources and Conwy County Borough Council in Wales.
You can find more of my work in:
England
The Gallery at Number 3
Wales
Conwy Art & Crafts
Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
Northern Ireland
Cowley Gallery
Republic of Ireland
Glashedy Art Gallery
The Jewel Casket
Visit Inishowen
After living for many years in North Wales and Donegal, I have become absorbed by dry stone walls and what I would call the ‘hidden landscapes’ sequestered within them.
My pictures are often viewed through barbed wire/old windows and broken walls that enhance the perception of looking out into an unencompassed vista of wild impelling wilderness. When I come across, for example, light, lingering on an abandoned old building or remnant of such, I have a desire to communicate something of the process of disintegration and the beauty of decline.
I find the medium of watercolour most suited to my approach; almost always bending the rules in order to find ways of expressing texture and form. I am self taught; having attended various courses with the renowned Welsh artist Maurice Greenwood RCA in the early 1990s.
Thereafter, I ran an art group for school students, and alongside my own developing work, I obtained many commissions from both private sources and Conwy County Borough Council in Wales.
You can find more of my work in:
England
The Gallery at Number 3
Wales
Conwy Art & Crafts
Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
Northern Ireland
Cowley Gallery
Republic of Ireland
Glashedy Art Gallery
The Jewel Casket
Visit Inishowen