My recent work takes inspiration from spaces and places that often go unnoticed. Creating and depicting these spaces has influenced many painters and contemporary art photographers exploring the transitory nature of urban space outside conventional depictions of the built environment. These places have an anti-aesthetic they exude a practical inoffensive backdrop to our lives, they are the zones of our inattention.
Each image was captured using an iPhone 7, they were then manipulated in Photoshop. I aimed for a sense of stasis in each image creating a balance between authenticity and contrived construction. I hope to draw the viewers attention to a half registered familiarity with these spaces. Perhaps it is best summed in the words of Lorca, it is an ambition to record ‘that which was never really hidden, but rarely is noticed.’
I am a local artist and I work in a wide range of materials techniques. My initial engagement with both my local environment and further afield is through sketchbooks and photography. My outcomes are varied and wide ranging from installation pieces, portraits, mixed media pieces, prints and photography. I have exhibited at the Cornerstone Gallery Didcot in November 2023, with an installation piece for a project titled Henge. Early this year, in March 2024 with a group known as East Oxford Portraits I exhibited five of my portraits at Magdalen Road Studios.