Artist

Somerset Woodland

Landscape Artist

About Me

I was born in London. My father was an artist and I have been painting and drawing all my life.

Originally I specialised in portraiture, which I still enjoy and for which I still take commissions, but my love of landscape began with a move to Cornwall in 2002, when I first saw the spectacular coastline. I became more and more immersed in how to represent the landscape on canvas. In 2015 I moved to the Somerset/Devon borders, with the Quantocks, Exmoor, Dartmoor and Blackdown Hills all within easy reach and Cornwall still also a short drive away.

I now combine trips to Cornwall with walks and excursions through the Devon and Somerset scenery, sketching with charcoal or watercolour pencils and taking photos to inform my work back in the studio, where I can concentrate on the work rather than weather conditions. I paint most days and usually work on several pictures at once, so that I can continue to see each one afresh. I work in acrylics, which I love for their versatility – from thin washes to layers and impasto – usually on canvas, sometimes on board. I love using a palette knife. I also use felt tip pens and watercolour pencils and occasionally oil pastels. I am an intuitive painter, concerned with the feel of a place, atmosphere, season, weather conditions, and the play of light on foliage, rocks, the sea, the canal.. I am very interested in reflections on water – whether calm lake or rough sea. Colour interests me greatly and I have to stop myself from including too much. My style tends towards impressionism and I am increasingly drawn to the abstract.

I show my work in a number of galleries in the South West, mainly in Cornwall, Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and also in London.

If any of the work displayed in this website is of interest to you, please do get in touch with me.