I create harmonious, tranquil paintings of the world around us from everyday objects to semi abstract landscapes.
It is important to me to capture something elusive on canvas - a feeling, a memory, a fleeting impression, perhaps inspired by the depth of colour in a flower or the way sunlight spills over a grass verge, or how the casual arrangements of objects can transport one back to another time and place.
PAINTING IS A WAY OF DOCUMENTING LIFE
I paint predominantly in acrylic and start with many layers of paint, playing with different colours, perhaps also including random marks made using stencils or collage, to form a visually pleasing, textured base. Much of this base will be covered over, but some will form the background to my main subject.
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Something about this subject will have inspired me to paint and I spend some time looking and considering how best to capture the essence of that inspiration.
Building my painting up to the point where I feel I have captured what I want is often a slow and tentative process at first, involving many layers, each adding to and refining the previous one. However as the layers grow and I get closer to what I am trying to portray, my approach becomes more determined and deliberate.
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