I’m interested in how we process and view the world; the systems and rituals that we undergo in our daily lives. My work is fuelled by modern-day anxiety and the yearning for spiritual freedom which, in our age of electronic chaos, can be hard to achieve.
Multiple drawings created from an array of personal experiences, thoughts and ideas are collaged to form the basis of my paintings. Mostly drawn from memory, these create a further blurring of reality. And through the physical material of paint, forms shift again and again as I grapple with the elusive qualities to achieve a completed image. Only aftersome discomfort with the process and some searching does the final image start to reveal itself. Lives and works in London and Noto, Sicily
Mediterranean: Mosaic of Coulture, Pinacoteca Comunale (Civic Art Gallery), Piazza Armerina, Sicily
2023
Zahir Art Event, Noto
2019
Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas, Art Academy Gallery, London Turps Painters 2019, Turps Gallery, curated by Marcus Harvey and Phil Allen Art Car Boot Fair, Lewis Cubitt Square, Kings Cross Open Studio Turps Studio Programme
2018
ACBF Wrap, The Workshop, London Art Car Boot Fair, Granary Square, Kings Cross 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, coordinated by Grayson Perry Hermoine Hammond Drawing Prize, runner-up, organised by the Mall Galleries Flowers Central, Artist of the day, group show with Turps Set 24, The Art Academy Open Studio Turps Studio Programme
2018 PRESS
The Gentle Touch in the US conservative publication The National Review. The Gentle Touch mentioned in the Grayson Perry Observer interview and in the Evening Standard, under the sub-title ‘Some of the paintings are quite rude’. And a mention of the Gentle Touch by the Daily Mail which goes as far as using the word penis next to the Farage portrait.
2017
Open Studio Turps Studio Programme
2016
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, Selectors: Dan Coombs, Chris Orr RA , Celia Imrie, Ian Mayes QC, Sacha Craddock, Michael Glover Open Studio ASC, Chaplin Centre
Education
Turps Studio Programme, 2017-2019 Fine Art, First Class, Cheltenham College of Art, University of Gloucestershire, 1989-1991