MY ART PRACTICE
As a Cornish artist, my passion is to create paintings suffused with the atmosphere, light and weather of the North Cornish coast which comes from my heritage.
My life is a constant process of seeing, recording to memory or paper, ideas and thoughts to be painted or to inform on new pieces of artwork. Reading lots of material and researching other artists helps to enrich my practice.
No two paintings will ever be the same. I like to make a painting that I don’t know. It keeps the process fluid, responsive and exciting. Sometimes it can have a starting point of an image or often it is just the sweep of the brush with ink or the charcoal marks that bring something from my memory to the fore.
Intuition and letting the paint find a way are all part of the process. After layering loose watery areas of colour over
The paintings process might include sanding, wiping off and glazing further layers of light, followed by more impasto brush marks.
The coast of Cornwall takes the full force of Atlantic storms and weather which has shaped our coastline over the centuries. As a Cornish artist, it feels right to use these same movements, building up layers of history and light on the canvas.