Help Ukraine: Without Reserve

Much of my work is inspired by folk art, this piece references the work of Ukrainian folk artist Maria Primachenko. It is called live like flowers from a Maria Primachenko quote “I draw sunny flowers because I love people, I create for joy, for happiness for people, so that all peoples love each other, so that they live like flowers throughout the earth.”

I use hands a lot in my work as a symbol of connection as for me that is what all forms of art is about, connecting to each other, at this time it is more important that ever. 

Current work showing at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance.

Coming up:
A room of ones’ own, Irivng contemporary, March 2022

Unstable monuments, group show, Bristol, April 2022

Felt Collections 02, May 2022. 

Past shows: 
December 2021 – light at the end, group show, that art gallery, Bristol. 

December 2021 – commissioned Christmas card for Newlyn Art Gallery and the exchange, Penzance. 

November 2021- Nutopia. Group show, Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn. 

October 2021 – Felt collection 01, A collection curated by Francesca Wilson and Tintin Macdonald. Peckham, London. 

June 2021 - The top 100. A show of the top 100 affordable contemporary artists selected by London art critic, Kate Bryan, Katy Wickremesinghe, Benjamin Murphy and Francesca Wilson. Brixton,London. 

April 2021 – I recorded a film about my practise for a palace of cultures at Newlyn Art Gallery November 2020 - The autumn auction with the auction collective. 

September 2019 - Equinoxy - A Leth group exhibition, Leth exhibition space.

June 2019 - Sol Force - group show- Tremenheere sculpture gardens.

June-October 2019 - Newlyn art gallery, the studio exhibition space. A three-part show- the devils’ trumpeters, the masked paraders and the narcissists drumroll. 

May 2018 - Yeah Penwith.- Borlase Smart exhibition room, Porthmeor Studios.

March 2017 - Transitions - Newlyn Art Gallery. Personal proverbs and putdowns. 

December 2016 - Picture this- group show Penwith Gallery. St Ives.

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