Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About

My current work reflects a lifelong love of nature and environment that began in childhood, growing up on the edge of a small town in Norfolk where the fields and country lanes became my playground. Some of my earliest memories are of digging in the soil for insects, building dens in trees and wandering through fields and hedgerows looking for wild flowers. As I grew up my passion for the natural world and the need to protect it intensified and never left me.

I mostly work from my own photographs of the natural landscape and these feed directly into my practice making memory an integral part of my work-drawing to capture the beauty of nature is a reflective and meditative process.

My practice is mainly focused around drawing, working in pencil to create intimate contemplations of organic form and everyday scenes that are intricate, atmospheric and sometimes dramatic-the tone of the pencil is the perfect medium for depicting the drama and spectacle of light and shadow and a sense of yearning for the landscape of my childhood. Shining a spotlight on the beauty and fragility of the natural world is important to me, especially where humans and nature try to co-exist in the same fraught landscape.

Education

BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London

Foundation Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Elected as Associate Member of Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) 2023

Exhibitions

SGFA Annual Open, Mall Galleries London 2024/2023/2022/2021

"Cross Roads" Gallery Holt, North Norfolk, 2023

"Nowhere" Cley 21, North Norfolk, 2021

"Works On Paper 2" Blue Shop Cottage online exhibition 2020

"Secret Charter" Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2018

"The Clyde and Co. Art Award Retrospective" Oxo Tower Wharf, London, 2017

Exhibited with Cavaliero Finn at Affordable Art Fair London/ "Beauty in the Everyday" Brixton East 1871/"Contemporary Art and Design Show" Herne Hill, London

Awards

The Lichfield Art Prize 2017 Finalist

Arts Depot Open Prize Winner 2016

Shoosmiths Art Prize Shortlisted 2015

Clyde and Co. Staff Vote Award 2012

Clyde and Co. Community Art Project Winner 2012

Gallery Representation

Cavaliero Finn

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

My work depicts the Norfolk countryside where I grew up and which recently became so important in luring me back to live in the area. These little tree drawings explore my relationship to memory and landscape. For me the landscape is filled with memories-every leaf, branch, flower full of what has been and the potential of what could have been.

Whilst trying to capture the beauty of nature within my drawings I am taken on a journey of reflection and contemplation; memories are delicately layered and woven into the intricate patterns of nature and so every detail I draw is imbued with memories of my past, both distant and recent

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