The Studio

My studio is an old 17th c stable situated in the middle of the Kent countryside which gives me the perfect peace, light and atmosphere condusive to creativity. It was through marouflage, a French method that, after years of working and searching in oil, watercolour and pastel, I found a medium that would give expression to my work and create what I wanted to achieve.

By layering paper, pigment and paint on to canas with a special resin, I lay life’s fragilities, one on top of the other, in order to obtain a very strong finish. Paper has for me a skin like quality, but paradoxically it is in this layering that I build the strength that allows us to cope with what life and its inevitabilities throw at us. Each layer I work with has its own intricacy. As I build on these layers the colours, texture and proportions work together to create the image. I find light then reflecting or retracting in different degrees because of the surface tension. Everything becomes bolder yet more subtle, simple but intricate, reflecting the permanence but also the ephemerality of life.

Colour has always been a passion of mine and I endeavour to evoke an emotion and spiritual response. Rothko and Matisse have been a great source of inspiration for my work. As my creative journey continues, I am becoming increasingly inspired by the use of symbols, such as simplified forms of everyday images, people, houses, hearts and sometimes text.

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