Portfolio Artweeks 2024
Exhibition Information
If you have already been to see my work, you’ll know the sort of things I like to paint - a mixture of still lives, interiors and landscapes, generally in oil but sometimes in chalk pastel.
Places I know and things I value - familiar subjects in the main, but endlessly interesting because they look and feel different in different light and at different times of day. I like the combination of drama and mundanity in everyday things. I value personal connections, to people and places and objects and I try to paint so that the viewer sees a little of what something or someplace means to me.
The battle continues to be truthful in paint and pastel and to cut out the unnecessary - to be more spare, more considered. I’m a fast, possibly hasty painter and my daughter tells me to think before I start - think and look and then think some more! You will have to judge whether I’m succeeding.
I would like to find a way of using my painting to speak about some of the issues which matter to me
migration and the desperate plight of people forced to flee their homeland
The gross inequalities between the haves and have-nots
The state of our planet as the climate changes and we fail to act
but I haven’t yet found a way of painting about any of these things which isn’t preachy or hackneyed.
I'm exhibiting in my studio at the end of the garden which is accessed along the side of the house from Plantation Road. Jericho and Walton Manor have plenty of artists all within easy walking distance, so you can plan a route to take in a variety of different venues. I'm open every day from the 11th to the 19th May, from 11 to 6 and 11 to 8 on Thursday.
One of the things I like best about Artweeks is the chance to meet visitors and the interesting conversations that ensue, so come and see the paintings and maybe have a chat.