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Overview
My work uses details from vintage photos, toy models and historical artworks, enlarging and altering them in my own way, sometimes to the point of abstraction. I am partly paying homage to the originals and partly exploring why these specific images capture my attention. The subjects I choose often speak to current world events, or event in my own life.
Curtain themes have recurred over the years; reconnaissance photographs taken by my father in WW2 were central to my work for ten years or so and their influence can stull be seen. Antique black and white film footage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a basis for another series of paintings exhibited as ‘Brave City’, also photos from the aftermath of the Guernica and Dresden bombing in WW2.
During the lockdown period, charcoal drawing on paper became central to my work practice again. I began to draw directly onto the canvasses in charcoal, fixing the charcoal with varnish before applying oil paint; scraping , brushing and diluting back.
More recently I have returned to oil paint as central medium employed in my work. Having trained as a printmaker, I learned to embrace chance happenings and ‘mistakes’ during the creative process; areas of raw canvas, smudges and rough brush-marks left unchecked. I see this as a celebration of the human hand at work, its skills, alterations and decision-making are an antidote to the computer-corrected CGI images that flood our screens every day.
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Model Behaviour (solo). Arundel Contemporary, West Sussex, UK
2023 Nexus (solo). Arundel Contemporary, West Sussex, UK
2022 Brave City. San Francisco 1906 (solo). Arundel Contemporary, West Sussex, UK
2021 Guernica (solo). 35 North Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
2021 Possessing the Past (solo). Hastings Arts Forum Gallery, St Leonards, East Sussex, UK
2020 Royal Academy summer/winter exhibition, London
2020 Hastings Art Forum Gallery, St Leonards, East Sussex, UK
2019 The Deanland Project(with John Brockliss). Farley Farmhouse Gallery, East Sussex, UK
2018 The Deanland (with John Brockliss). 35 North Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
2018 The Masters. Royal Society of Printmakers, Mall Gallery, London
2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Jerwood Space, London + touring
2016 Reconnaissance (solo). The Atom Gallery, London
2016 Royal West of England Academy, RWA Open
2015 South East Open. Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, East Sussex
2015 Life in Abstract (solo). Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex
2013 Artists Making Prints. Mall Gallery, London
2011 Pushing Print. The Margate Gallery, Kent
2009 Mall Gallery, London
2008 Art/CLIC Bankside Gallery, London
1995 Alternative Arts. Marylebone, London
1993 Galerie 111 (solo). Nijmegen, Netheralnds
1992 Valke Gallery (solo). Amersfoort NL (solo)
1985 Stowells Trophy.Royal Academy, London.
Collections
Publications
2020 & 2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition catalogues.
2018 DEANLAND 84 page photo documentary of The Deanland Project (see menu)
2018 RECONNAISSANCE catalogue of the complete Reconnaissance silkscreens.
2017 JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE exhibition catalogue. ISBN: 978-1-908331-29-8
2015 LIFE IN ABSTRACT Project Gallery catalogue. ISBN: 978-1-78280-620-2
2015 INSIDE ARTISTS MAGAZINE Issue 2.
2015 ART IN BRIGHTON ISBN 978-0-9928543-1-7
2014 ART IN BRIGHTON ISBN: 978-0-9928543-0-0