Arnold Berleant wrote in 2004
‘perceiving the environment from within, looking not at it but in it, nature becomes something quite different. It is transformed into a realm where we live as participants not observers’
I am a contemporary visual artist combining conceptual and traditional approaches in my art practice.
Often working at the boundary of abstraction and figuration, I like to create a detachment from the material world, giving the viewer freedom to respond emotionally to my ambiguous narrative spaces. I hope that the work will reflect the extensive research, my use of materials, and the background social engagement.
I aim to create work that weaves together threads of concern for the fragile uncertainty of life, the importance of place and the environment.
Work that is more than the simple pleasure of looking.
I am a member of The Oxford Art Society, a member of the xvi group of artists, and a graduate of the Falmouth School of Art (MA Fine Art Contemporary Practice 2012).
Exhibitions
| Open Competition | Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) Mall Galleries, London | 2004/5/6/7/8/9/10/13 |
| Open Competition | Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) Mall Galleries, London | 2020 |
| Open Competition | Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) Bankside Gallery, London | 2004/6/8/10/11 |
| Open Competition | Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Bristol | 2004/6/7/13 |
| Oxford Art Society Members Exhibition | St John’s College, Oxford | 2022/2024/2025/2026 |
| Open | Charlbury Arts Society | 2023/2024/2025/2026 |
| Broadway Arts Festival Open Competition | Broadway Art Gallery, Finalist | 2022 |
| Oxford Art Society Open | Cloisters Gallery, Oxford | 2021/2022 |
| xvi Artists | PZ Gallery, Penzance | 2019 |
| Sol Force | Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens | 2019 |
| Newlyn School of Art | Chapel House, Penzance | 2019 |
| Open Studios | Islington Wharf, Penryn | 2018 |
| Lizard Art | Trelowarren, Helston | 2018 |
| Fake | CMR project space | 2017 |
| An Lyzard | Xtrospective Gallery, Penryn | 2017 |
| Bodmin Moor | Xtrospective Gallery, Penryn | 2017 |
| Lizard Art | Trelowarren, Helston | 2017 |
| Inland Festival | CMR project space, Redruth | 2016 |
| Art Decade | The Old Bakery, Truro | 2016 |
| Dialogue | Spring Gallery, Poly Falmouth | 2015 |
| Mining the landscape | Maritime House Gallery, Falmouth | 2015 |
| Bodmin | Tinca Gallery, Portishead | 2015 |
| Interplay | CMR project space, Redruth | 2014 |
| Four Directions | CMR project space, Redruth | 2014 |
| Freedom from Torture | Millenium Gallery, St Ives | 2013 |
| The art of writing | CMR project space, Redruth | 2013 |
| Limbo | Bucca Gallery, Newlyn | 2013 |
| Cornish Landscape | The Jam Factory, Oxford | 2012 |
| MA final show | Falmouth University | 2012 |
| Welsh Landscapes | Covered Arts Gallery, Oxford | 2011 |
| Textures | D’Art Gallery, Dartmouth | 2010 |
| Blockley Group | Orange Street Gallery, Rutland | 2008 |