Following Art college HDip Art & Design 1980 in West Sussex, I trained as a Medical Illustrator / Photographer. Since then my artwork has developed using mixed media and photography with painting & pastel in my most recent works, whether the project is for a Christian organisation, musician, individual or exhibition.

 

Based in a small village near Bicester, led by the ‘breath’ of God on personal and collaborative projects, my art is used for personal devotions, reflection and illustration enhancing publications, multi-media projects and exhibitions. I also undertake live 'Art in Worship' during church services, enhancing the message during corporate worship and lead a course exploring faith and art called Creative Call.

 

Latest project: Shadows & Refections - Book of artwork; photography and Poetry.

 

“To see the world in a Grain of sand / And heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour” William Blake 18th century Poet & Artist.

 

To see the world in a grain of sand requires ‘seeing’ and to ‘see’ is not just a cursory glance, but a look that drinks deeply of that visual cup taking time, a period of meditation to focus on what is before you and receive from it all that is unseen or hidden; seeking beauty and revelation even in the midst of the fractured, the distorted, the broken.

 

My most recent work seeks to process from the slow materials used; powder pigments. oils and crushed oyster shell, silver powder and gold leaf ; laid down slowly, allowing each layer to take on its own form, changing colour over time, increasing the refractive light within. Layers that when the viewer equally commits to lavish time gazing gentle on the image, will be rewarded with a reveal personal to them, seeing something ‘other’ in the layers, the marks and colour.

 

Each of the ‘Shadow and Reflection’ series of paintings contain within a figure, a shadow, an image which is there but slightly hidden, a reflection on the shadows always with us. Frequently ignored, ever immune to their presence it is not until arrested out our normal hurried view a light shining at its brightest brings contrastingly into focus that which is not ‘seen’.

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