My recent series of paintings have built upon my previous body of work exploring my local beach around Seaford and Newhaven becoming increasingly abstracted and acting as a distillation of personal experience.

The shingle beach has become something of an obsession reflecting the patterns, shapes, forms, and colours in myriad ways. Paint is spattered, thrown, brushed, diluted, and washed over to express different aspects of the sea and the beach and the elements surrounding it.

The hardness of the rocks and cliffs, the softness of the pebbles and sea are contrasted to create different moods, feelings, and expressions. Sometimes objects from the beach are integrated within the overall painted compositions creating multimedia works using elements taken directly from the source of inspiration.

Many of my paintings are worked on over a period of months and are layered revealing some of the elements and processes beneath the surface creating depth and diversity.

New paintings have drawn inspiration from the garden and the landscape using paint in a more diluted way acting more akin to watercolours on canvas.

I have had a long career as an artist having many exhibitions in London before moving to East Sussex in 2014.I am a member of Hastings Arts Forum and have had solo exhibitions there as well as being involved in group shows. Previously I was involved in opening my studio as part of the Lewes Artwave Festival.

Selected for the Towner Gallery East Sussex Open, the ING Discerning Eye and the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries in London as well as solo exhibitions at Farleys House and Gallery, Home of the Surrealists and The Hop Gallery in Lewes. My work has been collected by an enthusiastic group of clients and friends over the years.