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Paint, Sculpture, Print
SomersetUnited Kingdom
Brought up by the sea I have been making art about the sea and its foreshore for many years.
My original training as a sculptor has influenced the ways in which I now make my paintings. The use of mixed media work and techniques in which the paint is applied in an intentional and overt physical process gives the finished pieces a unique and expressive surface quality.
In my latest works I am responding to a specific area in Cornwall where I have drawn and painted for several years. This latest body of work is about the border between the land and the sea and an attempt to capture the essence of this meeting, sometimes in storm and sometimes in calm.
I have been most recently trying to record and create an expression of a moment in time, that been the hour before dawn.
When I am in Cornwall, when I am by the sea it is the place that I feel most alive and connected. The place where the land meets the sea, and where the sea meets the sky, it is here that I paint and draw.I am in love with the raw nature of the sea when in storm and entranced by its surface on a calm summer’s day. The sound of it as it gently laps on the sand or the crash as rollers smash into the rocks; it is the smell and the taste of the sea salt on my face and on my tongue, the feel of the sand between my toes, the icy cold of the water as I dive beneath its surface. All of this I try to get into my work, often it is a record of a moment in time, a memory or an expression of a place I know intimately.