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Triumph Jumping, oil on canvas

Triumph Jumping, oil on canvas

Oil on Canvas painting 120cmx 45cm. Creating is a compulsion; it’s in my very essence. As a young child I would practice my drawing skills using my mum’s ruby red lipstick on the magnolia walls of our council home. I .....Read more

Courtyard Arts Centre

Courtyard Arts Centre

Courtyard Arts Centre..Read more

Our gallery shop

Our gallery shop

Seeking unique gifts or greeting cards for the artistically discerning? Look no further than our shop – the littlest treasure trove in town. Drop by to discover a tempting and ever-changing range of handcrafted jewell.....Read more

Thought

Thought

From a portrait shoot..Read more

Splash #1

Splash #1

Part of an underwater shoot..Read more

Red curve on black

Red curve on black

Works explore the articulation of visual space, and the boundaries between marks and images they compose. Variations and permutations allude to the process and transformation...Read more

blue on yellow

blue on yellow

Articulation of visual space and the boundaries between marks and the images they compose. Alluding to the state of process and transformation...Read more

Grey on white

Grey on white

Graphite on acrylic paint..Read more

Flow 1

Flow 1

This is the first of a series of abstracted calligraphy images, inspired by my time in Japan and the many hours I spent in calligraphy lessons. I struggled for years, as a 'foreign' left-hander, but finally realised .....Read more

Flow 2:

Flow 2:

Flow 2 and the others that followed are all variations of the freedom I gave myself to produce Flow 1. Like Flow1, this is created on Bristol Board using Sumi and a Japanese brush. For Flow 2, however, I started eac.....Read more

Flow 7

Flow 7

For Flow 7 I went back to more absorbant paper - hand made with large fibres and a larger Sumi brush. It was part of my journey on up to larger scale works using a domestic paint brush. Contrast the resistance and s.....Read more

Chapter and Verse

Chapter and Verse

After Flow, I picked a slightly smaller sumi brush to crease small verses, or chapters of abstraction. Here I had slightly more fun with the characters, aiming to get perhaps 10% 'real' Japanese into the text, includi.....Read more

Relax 4

Relax 4

Relax 4 is the 4th/last image in a series of relatively small brush strokes on hand made fibrous paper. The first is a straight line, leading to this more relaxed form using a decorators brush, sumi and 2 shades of ac.....Read more

Flow3

Flow3

Whatever I'm working on, there seem to be three themes - reduced colour palettes, repetition/patterns and branching out from a single point. I'm very excited that working through Flow produced a number of branches for.....Read more

3 Calm Thoughts

3 Calm Thoughts

I work in collections and series of repetion and form development, but by the time I was ready to create 3 Calm Thoughts I was seriously running out of paper. Still, I rather like the meditation inherent in this small.....Read more

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