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Qualifications:
1982-1984: BTEC National Diploma in Art &
design. Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design
1985-1988: BA Hons
Degree in Graphic Design (specialising in photographic design) Thesis on the use of photography in environmental
conservation (Rambler's Association Publications in focus)
Followed by two residential business courses, one
held in Exeter and one in Bristol.
Career:
1988 + : Freelance photographer, graphic designer and artist.
Clients have included - The Milk
Marketing Board,
Symbol-LIS, Decathlon, Kingcombe Aquacare Ltd, Weld
Enterprises Ltd, Cassandra Eason (author), Remedx Ltd, Aetheric Engineering,
Hamish Brown (author).
Also
during this period:
1990-92:
Chief designer for Par Lithographics Ltd.
1992-1998: Founder and Head of Design
Department, Watermark Design & Print Ltd.
1996-98:
Editor & Publisher of South West arts magazine "Quarto".
1996:
Elected Member of the Chartered Society of Designers.
1996 -
98: Director of Grosvenor Art Gallery, Dorset which
exhibited up to 80 artists at any one time including
Robin Paris,
Greta Berlin, Geraldine Francis,
Jonathan Garratt,
Robert Jones,
Russell Sydenham
and Len Wilshaw among
many others.
2004 +:
Relocated to Central France to devote more time to painting, whilst continuing with web and graphic design.
Also, 2004 to present day: Web administrator, designer,
occasional editor and researcher for
Cassandra Eason,
world renowned author on the
paranormal and psychic development.
Work Published Since 1988:
 Photography: A
series of photos commissioned by Hamish Brown, for "Walking the
summits of Somerset and Avon", published 1991 by Patrick Stephens Limited.
ISBN 1-85260-365-8
Article:
This England Magazine - Titled "Hedge Layering", photographs and
words.
Photography: Farmers Weekly Magazine
Photography: Landscape Research Group - Front cover and inside
illustrations issue in 1988
Photography: Local Newspapers - report coverage and press releases
1988-1991
Exhibitions
2005 - 2007:
Various solo
and joint exhibitions including: Nohant Vic, Dun le Palestel,
Chateaumeillant, St. Gaultier.
Solo Exhibitions
2008:
April: Boussac
March - June
Inclusive: Chateaumeillant Museum
April: Dun le
Palestel
May: Nohant
Vic
Solo Exhibitions
2009:
May: Nohant Vic
July-August: Lignieres
Inspiration:
My inspiration
has always been from the landscape. In my earlier work I was
fascinated with ancient sites and burial chambers (mostly in Ireland) and I usually painted scenes based on the
interiors
of
megalithic tombs such as Newgrange. Since moving to Central France
my inspirations are still drawn from the landscape but more about colour,
shape, and pattern of the everyday landscape.
I often focus on how
marks in or on the landscape created by man interact and enhance
what nature has laid out before us. (This was a subject that was strongly
emphasised in my thesis). These marks are often agricultural, the way
lines in fields define the natural contours or quarries have pitted and
scarred the landscape but nevertheless create a striking and often quite
beautiful scene.
The four seasons also play their role in my
inspiration. I am
particularly fond of the orange and red hues of late summer and early
autumn in my landscapes as well as the contrasting winter hues. I like to
walk and in doing so absorb the energies of nature around me.
I explore mark-making and the use of collage and
print-making, creating natural pigments from soil, rocks and minerals as well as from herbs
and plants grown in my garden
for their pigment qualities.
It is going to be an exiting few years ahead for me as
new techniques and media are being explored. I want to work alongside nature
using the most natural and organic materials I can find to create a
lasting impression of the subjects I adore. Visit
my
studio page to find out more.
I will never hope to match what nature
has created, but I always give thanks to mother earth for inspiring me.
Long live the natural environment. May God, yours or mine, preserve it
from destruction.
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