I am a semi abstract painter, living and working on the North Coast of Cornwall.

After studying Fine Art at Newport College ( University of South Wales ) I went on to study advertising, and editorial film and photography. before moving to London and worked as a producer for editorial and advertising photography before moving into commercials. During this time I studied still life at St Martins School of Art and continued to attend constant life drawing classes., always sketching.

I now work in oil paint on wood cradled birch canvas. My process starts with something I see, an idea or memory that inspires me and I quickly sketch a small story-board, that is influenced by the everyday. which changes constantly. This helps me work out the composition and my pallet before setting up the still life, selecting objects from my kitchen and home as well as produce I may bring to the studio or a recipe, an object, or colours I have seen and then sketched. as reference. This allows me to create not just from life but also from memory, using my perspective and not just what I see in front of me but how I see it.

My inspiration comes from simple objects, the colours, textures and marks revealing their past and present, they tell a story especially with hand made or old. objects. I combine these with the colours of the landscape and ocean where I live.

It is a constant struggle to break free from objective work that is so engrained in me from art school and years of working in photography.

The most simple things for me are the most difficult, having learned and followed the rules, I now want to break them,.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not insetting new landscapes but in having new eyes”

Marcel Proust