Climate Change and Art

Climate Change and Art

  I saw a question posed about whether art can change people’s minds about climate change. I’ve been thinking about this since in relation to the project I set myself in 2022. It seems to me that art operates on a different level in our psyche. It...
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 Longlist

Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 Longlist

  I am absolutely thrilled to be included in Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 Longlist! Thank you so much to the selection committee Gordon Dalton, Leslie Bunch, Susan Gunn and Mandy Payne- all painters I greatly admire which is why it means so much....

Sea Paintings

I am deep in the process of painting several large paintings of the sea and have been asked a few times about whether and where they’ll be exhibited. Short answer is I don’t know. Painting is about what I feel not about what I think. It is a process of...
The Sea The Sea

The Sea The Sea

I saw once in Paris an enormous painting of the sea stretching 5 metres high and 7 metres wide. In the centre was a tiny head of someone swimming. This painting has stayed with me and ever since seeing it I have always wanted to paint the sea. Working out how has...
The Sea The Sea

East To East at Houghton Hall

I’m proud to be showing new paintings and drawings from Spring to Autumn at Houghton Hall stables, expertly curated by Contemporary & Country in their new collection of Asian influenced work, East To East. The curation will run alongside a major sculpture...