Artist’s statement

Art provides me with tools to develop my curiosity and commitment to life. I create my work from the inside out. Art, just like life, is a never-ending quest and my curiosity drives me in this quest. My work is consciously driven by unconscious mobility. I employ both traditional and contemporary methods to create images. Not only did Nature inspired me to create this body of work but also experimentation. I have used digital media, gloss household paints, inks and traditional oil paints to create a body of work that addresses the fluidity and impermanence of spaces and suggests the impact that climate change may have on landscapes. I have called this project ‘Innerscapes’ as they are re-creation of realities.

In this body of work, which include digital images and paintings, it is my intention to engage the viewer in a dialogue with images that speak of impermanence and fluidity through the choice of colours and/or the way the surface of the work is constructed. The surface of a painting is a fragile space just like our environment.  We actually live on the surface of this planet. The way I deal with the surface of my paintings I try to convey an idea of movement and change. With my artwork I try to make one see things that were otherwise invisible.

I place my practice within the context of landscape painters such as Samuel Palmer, Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash, Arthur Boyd, Odilon Redon and Sydney Nolan.

Curriculum Vitae

Forthcoming exhibitions

• Fine Art Degree Show, University College for the Creative Arts – 30 May – 6 June 2008

• Old Truman Brewery (London) – Group show of graduates of the University College for the Creative Arts - 4-7 July 2008

Past exhibitions

• Group show – Wokingham College – 2003

• Group show – Thames valley University - 2002

Professional experience

• Practising artist - Studio in Wokingham

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