As an artist I exhibit as a painter, printmaker, photographer using subject matter which ranges from landscape and architecture to figurative work, both abstract and representational. A significant aspect is a preoccupation with the Spirit of Place. It was the realisation that, for me, the place I lived in, travelled through, was vitally important to the pictures I could make.

For me ideas are much more important than attempting to produce a visual identity based on self. I have little interest in the continual presentation of a recognisable motif. My pictures are derived from the memory of my awareness of observed locations, incidents, people, with their architecture and landscape. More recently, I have found myself using ‘landscape’ much more as metaphor; the landscape of the mind, my mind, where emotion, feeling, sense of time, memories, demands more of my attention than topography.

Also it is the needs of specific ideas that determine the reason for using specific techniques. These include drawing and painting, printmaking, photography. Pictures can be abstract or representational, occasionally the figure wanders in. (I value the freedom bestowed on us by Paul Klee.)

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Landscape Capriccios (36)
North by North West (30)
Pictures for a small room (45)
Prints (52)
Other Paintings & Drawings
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