As a Cornish artist, I work to create paintings suffused with the atmosphere, light and weather of the North Cornish coast ingrained with my heritage.
My art is life, life is art. 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.
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.
What starts out as one idea may become something else entirely. Intuition and letting the paint find a way are all part of the process. After layering loose watery areas of colour, 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.