Biography

 

1987 Maidstone College of Art B.A hons Fine Art.

2001 Wimbledon School of Art M.A in Painting.

Solo exhibitions:

“Small Truths” October 2009 Millennium Gallery. St Ives Cornwall

“Particular” March 2008 Hilton Young. Penzance Cornwall.

Recent exhibitions: 2009

“Gallery Artists’ Millennium Gallery St Ives, Cornwall

“Forgotten Landscapes” Long and Ryle, London. SW1P 4PX

Selected exhibitions:

The Threadneedle Prize 2009 (Shortlisted for the Threadneedle prize)

Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2009

Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008,

 2009, 2010

‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall galleries, London 2002, 2004,2007 2009

New English Arts club 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,

The Hunting art prizes, Royal College of art 2003, 2005

 

 

“The work reinterprets the idea of looking at the overlooked from a tradition of still life. The objects, lost/ found/ discarded, are real, resonant, they are part of intimate narratives, removed from their original contexts, and they are reborn with new and ambiguous meaning.” 

 

I am interested in painting slowing down the process of looking. The ‘found objects’ are painted life size; their small scale invites close scrutiny and an intimate focus. They are evocations, equivalents of objects we recognize and remember, as both specific and unplacable.