Working predominantly in watercolour, my work draws on the mundane and the newsworthy of normal life. Like most artists, sketchbooks occupy many shelves in the self-built studio where I work, filled on my travels since leaving Winchester School of Art in 1987. Travelling through the US, the Far East and Australia, returning in more recent years to London, ideas for my paintings arrive randomly from any subject ... landscapes, cities, street scenes, people, machines, online and other media. I strive, with varying success, for spontaneity, which in turn creates confidence from hours spent working with the medium. Whenever a scene appeals to me, I subconsciously begin to work out how I can paint it - how I might capture its essence with my brushes and paint, building light, shade and atmosphere into the piece. I also have a strong feeling that traditional watercolour painting is now subverting the established Bed, Butterfly, Ceramics and Gobby Placards of the not-so-YBA movement, though this has yet to be proved. A more detailed biography can be read here.
The first validation that my watercolour painting, a medium I started using in 2013, was going somewhere was in 2014 when I sold my atmospheric and poignant painting “Somerset in Flood” exhibited in the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London. I have subsequently showed at this exhibition again and with the RI.
Here are some videos of me at work.
This site displays a fraction of my oeuvre, some is for sale, most, pleasingly, already sold. If you'd like to enquire about any of the paintings or would like to commission a painting, please contact me here for a quick reply.
The first validation that my watercolour painting, a medium I started using in 2013, was going somewhere was in 2014 when I sold my atmospheric and poignant painting “Somerset in Flood” exhibited in the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London. I have subsequently showed at this exhibition again and with the RI.
Here are some videos of me at work.
This site displays a fraction of my oeuvre, some is for sale, most, pleasingly, already sold. If you'd like to enquire about any of the paintings or would like to commission a painting, please contact me here for a quick reply.
I also really like skiing - touring and alpine, here’s me in the Alps.
Painting in watercolour is like walking a hearding cats; one must achieve a balance between what the paint, or cat, wants to do and what the artist wants to do. I sometimes succeed ...
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A range of my square format paintings can be seen and bought in Mexico at Carré d'artistes gallery Mexico
Virgilio 25 Polanco 11560 Mexico Estado de México Mexico and Germany at CARRÉ D'ARTISTES Kunstgalerie Breite Str. 153, 50667 Köln. carredartistes.de 
A small selection of my paintings can be found at: Gallery Seventeen 20 High Street Beckenham BR3 1AY galleryseventeen.co.uk |
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