'Allotments #20' Print

My principal career has been as a furniture designer-maker; I have also studied and sold my fine art photography more recently. I still enjoy working with wood making furniture and decorative items, along with writing poetry, making fine art digital prints of my work, creating abstract acrylic art, making artists' books (handmade), designing and making tools and equipment for bookbinding and my wood workshop. I live a lot of the time in my house in southern France. In my painting, I navigate between intention and intuition, excited at the unfolding images of colours and mobile shapes on the canvas. Marks made are inherently abstract in nature, yet result in imagery which is invariably evocative of real world and/or other-worldly scenarios. I revel in the immersive, always new, experience of creating this artwork, visually exciting and oftentimes unexpectedly enriching. In my photography, I look for a similar experience, letting shapes and colours, in nature, in my house, in any situation, catch my eye and be the stimulus to want to capture the experience photographically and create a permanent reminder in the form of the photographic print. To find a constant excitement and reward in this creative process, with whichever medium, is both gratifying and humbling.