hard ground and aquatint of Lizards Point in south shields Print - Limited Edition of 1

I am an artist based in Newcastle Upon-Tyne. My paintings and prints extenuate the inner conflict between light and dark in a photograph. I have found the quality and transience of light to be the most vital element, detaching the viewer from their perspective of the subject. The presence of light creates an abstraction through glazing; light ultimately determining what we see making the physical composition almost redundant. Light begins to envelop the landscape or the figure, removing form from the painting. I also work from memory of past experiences by evading connotations to the pictorial representation my work, determining a relationship between the subject matter, craftsmanship and the surface quality of the artwork.