Your Artist / Exhibitions

Subject matter

My artwork is a combination of quirky, strange, unexpected and sometimes sinister characters that emerge and develop from looking at unusual oddities of shapes in nature and in inanimate objects.  I am inspired by imagining their different personalities and worlds and seeing how random juxtapositions appear from combining them together. I am interested in how a shape, object or creature can inherit a life and personality on the page, believing that they can have an imagined persona.  These representations within my work are a mischievous reflection of the variety of human personalities and characters found in everyday life. 

Creative process

I mainly use watercolours and ink on paper, however I also love to experiment with other types of medium as well. Throughout my work I enjoy using strong contrasts of colour to add drama, which I find visually stimulating to me. My creative process involves collecting inspiration from a variety of source materials, from drawing from life, to using my own drawings, to looking at other artists’ work. These objects and imagery are then transformed into my drawings. I find working in a series helps to develop my ideas and creates energy and flow within my finished work.  I am currently interested in accidental outcomes and random surprise. Which are created through a process of adding drawings to a page, so that the composition develops at random as the drawing progresses, without any rearranging or editing.

 

Exhibitions

Packington Gallery
24th - 28th April 2019
8 Prebend Street
London
N1 7DF

Westland Place Studio 
5th - 8th October 2017
3-11 Westland Place
London
N1 7LP

M By Montcalm 
5th - 8th October 2017
151-157 City Road

Hoxton
London
EC1V 1JH

RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition
3rd - 15th March 2017 
Bankside Gallery 
Hopton Street
London
SE1 9JH

Parallax Art Fair
13th - 14th February 2016 
Chelsea Town Hall
Kings Road
London

The Lovely Gallery
4th - 31st July 2014 
140 Sydenham Road
London
SE26 5JZ