Observational research forms the starting point of my work and drawing practice is at the centre of my creative engagement. My formal language explores the materiality and process of medium that translates the drawing into the painterly. This ongoing experimentation with oil pigment techniques forms this process. I don’t maintain a single cohesive style but prefer to allow each painting to dictate my response. I produce many different studies around the subject and continue to re work on all the pieces in the early developmental stage.
Two subjects have interested me over many years the figure and the landscape.
I have always been excited by the various challenges that drawing from the figure presents. Each drawing is an improvisation and my language starts to become more fluid. I continue to maintain a strong connection with the RA Schools attending weekly drawing sessions, an engagement that deeply influences my art practice.
The landscape paintings are worked from studies directly observed and then developed into paintings using a mix of oil paint, pigment, varnishes to create works that have many layers reflecting the timelessness of these places and my response to them.