Statement
I was reasonably confident about drawing but once at college the introduction of colour caused me great excitement if not a little unease. Initially I found myself producing increasingly more vast and complicated canvases covered in coloured squares and rectangles. This was my answer to the problem of colour. This being; how does one place colours next to, or on top of other colours while still retaining their integrity? I found that the only way that I could comfortably paint in colour was to establish a hard line between each block of colour. I found that different colours had their own energy and would appear to sink back into, or stand proud from the canvas. As I worked at these paintings I started to get interested in making these colours ever more vibrant and so I began working in glazes, firstly in Acrylic and later in Oils. During my degree I spent time at the Aquarium in Liverpool marvelling at the myriad colours flashing in the darkness. Days were spent in the Palm House in Sefton Park and in places like Kew and The Eden Project where I sketched the architectural shapes and vibrant hues of plants from around the world. These sketches found themselves worked into paintings of strange and exotic subterranean and submarine worlds, populated by brightly coloured, oddly shaped flora and fauna.Over the years since leaving college my work has changed but it isn’t too hard to see where the current pieces have come from. I mainly work in watercolour now but that is more a practical issue than an artistic one.
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