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Overview
I am an artist living and working in Hastings. Originally from Dungeness and the Romney Marsh, I predominantly paint the concrete architecture found alongside the coastline of Kent and Sussex.
As a lifelong sufferer of manic depression and BPD, I find an enormous comfort in the solidity and permanence of the concrete sea defenses on the marsh and Bottle Alley in St Leonards. A beauty in the incongruous structures of the power stations at Dungeness and the grand redoubt at Dymchurch. An affinity with the obsolescence of the sound mirrors at Lade.
I have developed over time a laborious technique to my oil paintings. One of precise drawing and loose initial painting. Of repetition in application, and again in stripping back. Of allowing paint and spray to determine much of the texture, before the finality of tight lining and completion. There is chaos and order in this work, and above all, therapy.
I am fortunate enough to have my works in collections around the world, and feel a privilege in perhaps bringing my perspective on mental illness to a wider audience, and my heritage and home to fresh new eyes.