My art explores half-remembered moments from a childhood in an English mining town. My grandfather was a working coal miner, and when starting a new painting, print, or sculpture, my mind often returns to stories about his life underground, including a near-fatal accident he suffered.
My choice of materials depends on the emotional state I arrive at after thinking about these stories. But whether it’s oil painting, intaglio printmaking, or sculpture, I am either trying to tell a story in visual art, or looking for universally-recognized symbols for memory, loss, tragedy. What interests people most about my art is the expressive mark making, and the subtle combinations of colour, shape, and texture.
I have lived for short and long periods in France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Holland. Since 2002 I have lived in the USA.
My choice of materials depends on the emotional state I arrive at after thinking about these stories. But whether it’s oil painting, intaglio printmaking, or sculpture, I am either trying to tell a story in visual art, or looking for universally-recognized symbols for memory, loss, tragedy. What interests people most about my art is the expressive mark making, and the subtle combinations of colour, shape, and texture.
I have lived for short and long periods in France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Holland. Since 2002 I have lived in the USA.
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