I am a painter and sculptor living in North London.
I paint figures and portraits in oil on canvas.
I trained at City Lit and Heatherleys School of Fine Art doing a Diploma in Portraiture and then a Post Diploma course.

 

Exhibitions and Prizes

2018 – Espacio Gallery
2021 – King Lear Prizes; Chairman’s Painting Prize
2022 – Heatherleys School of Fine Art Diploma Show
2022 – Baron Ver De Lancy Painting Prize Medical Art Society
2022 – Hampstead School of Art Summer Exhibition
2023 – Scholarship Worshipful Guild of Painter-Stainers 2023 Emerging Artists Show Bankside Gallery
2023 – Post Diploma Show Heatherleys School of Fine Art
2024 – Show at Painter-Stainers Staircase Gallery
2024 – Art in the City

Artist’s Statement

My interest and motivation to paint stems from a desire to express something of the particular precarious predicament of being human. We all dwell in a body which through expression and deportment says a lot about who we are and how time and experience has affected us. It fascinates me that the addition of a millimetre mark to a face can completely change the mood expressed, and also affect the likeness to the sitter profoundly, as we are all minutely attuned to pick up these clues from the cradle. A painting, by it’s selection of composition and expression built up over many painting sessions, can say more about this than any photograph which can only ever record an instant. Hockney talks about a painting being an account of looking over time. There is real magic in smearing pigment suspended in oil on a flat sheet of cloth and have it eventually sometimes abruptly animate and become instead a person. It matters to me to be following a practice which has existed since at least the 14th century, and the challenge is to paint in a way which is informed by the great painters of the past, yet contains an awareness of influences from Modernism and Post Modernism. This search will continue as long as I paint and will never be satisfactorily solved. This is both the frustration of working in paint but also the dynamo to keep painting.

All the pieces on the website are for sale and I am happy to work to commission to translate your ideas into reality. Please contact me for prices and further details.