Woburn ArtBeat

I am an artist who lives and works in Milton Keynes. I was born in East London and then moved to Cornwall where I grew up and went to art school. I studied for a degree in fine art painting at Bretton Hall and graduated in 2000. I really love just being out and doing things. I use to free dive and do a bit of mountain biking which helped influence my early paintings. I have been working as an artist in residence, and am soon to be running some workshops and giving talks at the Open University.  I build abstract structures on canvas in a 2D space. I want the pictures to look complex while yet being minimal. I paint straight out of my mind without drawing or planning the end result. I love the dynamic of action painting, contrasted against the hand painted shapes. No stencils and no projections are used as I think this would go against the nature of the process’s I work in. I love the colours being so intense that they melt straight into your retina. Another aspect of my recent work has been classical figure painting and a way for me to engage the classical and modern techniques in one pictorial space. I understand the paradox in what I said about my work being non-representational, but to merge the two feels like a struggle I have with coming to terms with what painting means today. I constantly develop and refine my ideas through my studio practice.