Falmouth, Cornwall,
Born on 13th June 1991 and raised in Warrington, Cheshire. After completing a Foundation Diploma at ...
About the artist
Joined In 2011
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About the artist
Joined In 2011
(45 Followers)
Born on 13th June 1991 and raised in Warrington, Cheshire. After completing a Foundation Diploma at Carmel College in St Helens, Merseyside, I then went on to study BA Fine Art at Falmouth University where I graduated with Bachelors degree in 2013. Since then I have exhibited in London as part of a Falmouth Showcase, FloatArt and Now Falmouth. I will soon be exhibtiting my degree show in the Millennium Gallery in St Ives as part of the Midas Award.
My ideas and inspirations stem from looking at images and my photographs as a memory, perhaps sometimes embellished memories. I feel the need to make paintings that co-exist with these idyllic images and conform to my recollections of being in the environment. The fragments of land perhaps suggest an intangible reality, there is often no evidence of human activity, it is complete wilderness with only suggestions of habitation.
My latest body of work is a continuation from the paintings I made on an exchange trip to Alberta, Canada. My most recent work is derived from photographs taken in the Central Eastern Alps - Austria. I find myself continually drawn to painting mountainous regions; I want to convey the serenity of the alpine peaks, but although I paint from photographs, they a...
Falmouth University
Midas Award, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, November 2013.
Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, October 2013.
Now Falmouth, (‘Now Falmouth’ Collective Group Show), Shoreditch Town Hall, London, Sept 2013.
Float Art, Dixie Queen Paddleboat, (Near Tower Bridge), London, September 2013.
London Showcase, (Falmouth University Collective Group Show), The Dye House, Peckham, London, June 2013.
Interlude, (Falmouth Collective Group Show), The Fish Factory, Falmouth. June 2012.
Art Show, (Falmouth Collective Group Show). The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth. February 2012.
Prelude, (Falmouth Collective Group Show), Wellington Terrace Studios, Falmouth. June 2011.