Winter Woodland #3 Painting

I am a Yorkshire born watercolour painter currently based on the South Manchester, Cheshire border. The aim of my work is not to represent the physical appearance of the landscape but to express my own emotional response to its space, light, movement and atmosphere. The majority of my recent work has been created using watercolour and aims to exploit its wonderful translucent qualities and potential to distribute pigment in highly expressive and unique ways. I envisage that over time my work will gradually become more abstracted and emotionally driven, and increasingly less concerned with individual forms and features within the landscape. Rather than working from spectacular expansive panoramas, I often find myself drawn to smaller aspects of the landscape such as undergrowth, a small thicket, hedgerows or corners of fields. I find that intimate subjects of this nature allow great opportunities for personal expression and creative exploration. The sound, shapes and textures of the North Yorkshire coast are the focus of many of my seascape paintings, and find the old industrial ports at Port Mulgrave and Skinningrove particularly inspiring. Within my series of watercolours of Port Mulgrave I have tried to express the crisp, crumbling nature of this area of coastline along with its power, drama and form. My work has been exhibited in several group shows in the North of England and is held in private collections in the UK, Europe and America. I am a fully qualified artist with both a Degree and Master’s Degree in Fine Art; I am also a fully qualified art tutor and offer private tuition to students of all abilities. Thank you for reading my profile, I hope you enjoy viewing my watercolours.