I have loved creating works of art for as long as I can
remember. As a child I was fascinated by a painter
who lived nearby and worked from his garage – it
always looked like the ideal life to me!I studied art at
school and then went on to Chichester University
where I completed a fine art and creative
writing degree.
During my time at Chichester I experimented with
many techniques and styles. I developed a passion for
colour and painting as a means of expressing feeling
and I beganto develop my own way of seeing and a style particular to me.
Sometimes I am inspired by a view at sunset and I
will paint a landscape of vivid orange and yellow
with purple shadows. A small collection of flowers
silhouetted against a pink morning sky might peak my
interest or the man made stripes of farmed fields. I
try to capture the feeling of the time and the place,
the emotion I felt when I experienced it. I do not
paint photographs and I do not paint accurately;
I move fields, add or remove trees and always,
always ignore pylons.
