Aleph Contemporary for AccessArt

My paintings sit between imagination and observation, pairing places with sound and colour. Finding ways to give language to the landscape around me, a landscape that at times feels close, but can also feel quiet and hidden.

I’m interested in the way in which the speed of working, the speed of mark making affects the sound of a painting. I want lines drawn to be joyful and songlike, confident and present.  I aim not to be precious about the subjects that creep in and out, letting what’s found within the process be integral to the outcome. There are always reappearing motifs within my paintings, such as smoking chimneys, roofs of houses, hints of landscapes or buildings, yet I don’t want them to be dominant or begin to demand the image in any way.  At times I feel like I’m playing the role of a storyteller but the painting dictates which way the story goes, and I like that, as I want to be surprised by what reveals itself - I want the work to look back at me and feel unfamiliar and unexpected, but also familiar and intimate.

Born 1991
Studied fine art Painting at Wimbledon college of Art, graduating in 2014
2021         Reveille, Violet Hour,London (upcoming)
2021         Small is beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London (upcoming)
2021         Goodbye Summer, That Art Gallery, Bristol
2021         Autumn Attic, Flowers Gallery, London
2021          Flirting with the border guards, Terrace Gallery, London
2021         Stand close and breath me in, Oceans apart Gallery, Slaford
2021         Bird house, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2021         Bucolia, Blue shop Cottage, London
2020          Beep painting prize exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020         Coming up for air, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
2020         Oriel Blodau Bach, Carmarthenshire, 
2019         Fill your boots, London
2019         Looking through, odes to nowhere, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 
2019         Paint DADA, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
2018         Now the hero, Exist Skatepark, Swansea
2016         A miracle of rare device, Violet Hour, London
2016         Sound and Vision, Lancaster
2015         Colony 15, Tabernacle newydd, Port Talbot
2014         Meet the artists, Bellwood and wright, Lancaster
2014         Wimbledon college of Art degree show

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