events and projects

I am still in the early stages of what may turn out to be a very long term project,

and the paintings to date are simply work-in-progress. I have put some images on to the site, under 'current work', but this is just a start. I have always been fascinated by man's interaction with the landscape, and this has been the underlying subject for much of my painting to date. Now I am looking to interpret this theme in a much more abstract, expressionistic, way, using colour, textural variations, and line qualities to point up the hard-edged man-made marks laid against the organic and natural landscape.

The subject matter is very much a continuation of recent work- tin mining on the Cornwall coast, slate workings in North Wales, human archeology on Dartmoor, and early Indian settlements in Arizona and New Mexico.

For the moment, I have called this project M3- or 'Man Made Marks'

Looking further ahead, I intend to do a series of paintings derived from the book 'Wild Places' by Robert Macfarlane, who writes beautiful and evocative decriptions of special places, and being in and a part of them. I hope to use his words as a starting point, adding my own memories of being in similar wild places.

I plan to continue working without deadlines or exhibition commitments for as long as it takes.

forthcoming exhibitions & events: