Landscapes of the Soul

I enjoy working in the instinctive, abstract subconscious.

It's a fluid world of shape, colour, line and association.

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There are points of contact with the outside world; obvious strands and moments of inspiration: but mostly it's habitual repetition. In it I find expression, identity, calm and connectivity.

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Landscape is my soulmate. Trees, woodland, skies, water, rain, the wind, shifting seasons, seeds, leaves, fungi, mosses - plants of all kind are my inheritance (from my mother); stones, pebbles, rocks and cliffs, a passion for the sea (the gift of my father).

A constant, tactile fascination with place, geology and geography.

 

In them I find vastness, insignificance, permanence, transience, chance and pattern, creation and destruction. All twins : in each there is the presence of the other.

These drive the emotion of my work.

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I like to call what I do 'Romantic Abstraction' : a

contemplative and emotional dialogue with nature.

At its heart is a need to escape, to wait and listen and respond; and by looking inwards at my reactions find some kind of freedom and understanding.

Timeline
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2019
October              Solo show 'Gara Connected Forms',
                             Camberley, Surrey
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2018 
Graduate from Newlyn School of Art Professional Mentoring Programme 
November 2018  'Aquarium' Group Show
                                PZ Gallery, Penzance
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Summer 2018     Chapel House Gallery, Penzance
 
Qualifications & Publications
2015                        MA Stage 1 (Distinction) Art History
                                Open University                                                                                                   
                                Academic paper 'An Examination of  Contradiction? Filipino Identity and Juan Luna's  Spoliarium' 
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June 2008            Winchester Writer's Conference     Short Story Finalist - 'Wooden Eyes' (Highly Commended)
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