Biography
b. Oxford, U.K. 1987
"I make small oil paintings on handmade gesso panels and my imagery combines sparse, dreamlike spaces with small, very detailed figures.
The process before I begin painting, of constructing my panels and coating them with a traditional gesso primer of rabbit skin glue and whiting, is laborious and hugely pleasing in itself. I feel there is value in this and like the idea that my works are seen as beautifully finished objects rather than sole emphasis being placed on the content of the two-dimensional painted surface.
My motives and inspiration as an artist are ephemeral, though largely my work draws on personal experience and feelings that resonate for me with intangible poignancy: vague, sun-drenched childhood memory, travel, relationships.
As source material I'm drawn to imagery with an aged, vintage feel: 70's and 80's family photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards. I'm drawn to the obscure and mysterious; to that air of magic when a moment in time is frozen in an image, leaving us wanting to know more...
Curious figures in dappled vignettes; Mysterious kinship between potentially incongruous subject matter."
