I am an artist based in Norwich, UK. Creating works on paper and mixed-media paintings informed by the textures, colours and structures of the urban environment.

The highly valued Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi is based on the belief that time helps to make known the essence of things, the patina of time. Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. The worn and patinated qualities of the urban environment inform my work. 

Time is also reflected in the many hours spent in preparing the papers I use for collage and the plates created for printmaking. This time-consuming, durational aspect is written into the work, imbuing it with a depth and a richness. My aim is for the viewer to scan the surface and speculate about what lies beneath and behind. By choosing processes that allow the interplay of both formal and contingent elements I create a tension in the work, between intention and chance, control and accident, past and present, concealing and revealing.

My current practice reflects the decades I have been creating. I am using papers and collagraph plates created over decades. By placing new against old I am revisiting my history, and when I stand back I feel I am not looking at a piece I have made this month, this year or even this decade. At this point in my life that is where the meaning lies.

As well as being a professional artist educated to Masters level, I am also a qualified teacher with many years of teaching experience. I run a series of courses for artists of all levels, more information can be found here.

My work can be found in the following galleries:
Drift gallery
British Contemporary Art
Tarpey Gallery
Mandells Gallery