Biography
I was brought up on the Gower Coast in South Wales. I studied Stained Glass at Swansea Art College, Glass & Ceramics at Stourbridge Art College, and Glassblowing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. I spent some years teaching Art & Design, Fine Art, Sculpture & Ceramics and studying for an MA in Art & Design Education at Manchester Polytechnic. I am a professional working artist, I paint, draw, take photographs and make artist's books. I am also a tutor on Painting and Photography courses for a national college. I am involved with Cardigan Open Studios and the TAG artists group.
I live and work in West Wales, near the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the Ceredigion Coast.
My work has been exhibited widely. I was outright winner of The Independent/Energy Saving Trust National Photography Competition in 2003 and consequently, my work was on display at The Science Museum, London for three months in 2003/4. I have also had work shown in a Royal Photograph Society's International Print Show, Wexford Artists Book Exhibition, which travelled Eire, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, and many other venues.
I recently co-curated 'Lines & Strata' - Welsh Drawing Show and competition, open to Artists from all over the Principality, shown at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan.
Visitors to my studio in Tanygroes, Cardigan, Ceredigion, are welcome throughout the year, though you are advised to Email first.
Exhibitions - Gallery Guide Links |
| 2007 Nov 18 | |
Seapictures Gallery Open House for Christmas, Greenwich - Seapictures Gallery, London |
| 2007 Nov 30 | |
Winter Art Fair, Llangrannog Urdd Centre - Urdd Heritage Centre/Canolfan Treftadaeth, Llangrannog |
| 2008 Aug 16 | |
Cardigan Open Studios - Ty Twt Studio, Cardigan |
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Exhibitions - Full Listings |
| 2 - 8 August 2007 | |
Aberglasney Gardens, llandeilo, Carmarthenshire |
| 18/ 19, 23 - 27 August 2007 | |
Cardigan Open Studios |
| 1 October - 6 November | |
Oriel Cambria, Tregaron |
| 18 Nov/25 Nov/1Dec | |
Open House for Christmas, Seapictures Gallery, Greenwich, Tel 02088533322 for appointment |
| 18 Nov/25 Nov/1Dec | |
Open House for Christmas, Seapictures Gallery, Greenwich, Tel 02088533322 for appointment |
| 24 Nov - 23 Feb | |
Winter Art Fair, Llangrannog Urdd Centre, Ceredigion |
| 16-31 August 2008 | |
Cardigan Open Studios - Open House at my studio |
Statement
When I am painting, I like to use a variety of implements and tools including knives, cardboard, rags, housepainters brushes, and, occasionally, my fingers. I really enjoy the process of painting and the serendipity of wet on wet techniques. Though I may start with a fairly accurate representational drawing, I soon digress. It's rather like stepping off a known path in to an unknown space... This is the place where you bring together the known and the imagined, memory and invention, and where Painting becomes Art. For me, painting is an expression of personality and identity - moving paint around a canvas is this expression. The subject is something to hang a painting on. The painting itself determines when it is finished.
Sizes given are nominal, though I try to be fairly accurate. Frames, if any, are generally simple 1" pine.
News
As featured in The Mail on Sunday !
My painting 'Leaping' was featured in the Mail on Sunday style notebook 27/4/08 in an article on collecting contemporary Art.
See my Abstracts