I am a UK based artist and teacher. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art - Painting in 1994 I went to live and work in Greece and Taiwan. Upon my return to the UK at the turn of the century I gained a Master's degree in the History of Art and became a full time teacher and examiner. I currently run a well-respected art department in Surrey, England.

 

My practice is rooted in process, surface, and intuition. I rarely begin a piece with a fixed outcome in mind; instead, I work responsively with the materials, allowing the process to guide the direction of the work. In painting, I build and remove layers over time, letting gestures, textures, forms and the weight of paint shape the composition.

 

In my décollage pieces, I begin with photographs of familiar places and the overlooked textures of walls, posters and surfaces. I work into them with a scalpel, tearing and peeling layers as a way of drawing. These interventions are instinctive, like a conversation with the forms and rhythms of my environment. The act of cutting, peeling, layering, or scraping is a way of thinking through material and revealing what is hidden. I am celebrating the accidental, and recording the passage of time.

 

My sketchbooks and drawings are an extension of this process. They are spaces of freedom where ideas and observations are tested, discarded, or developed without judgment. Whether through my drawings, my paintings or collages, I hope my work reflects a quiet negotiation between presence and loss, construction and decay. In a sense these creations are a physical and emotional mapping of the world around me.