About:
Artist Statement:
'I am committed to the practice of plein air painting. The sense of the subject being about to slip away as the light changes lends the working process a sense of urgency. I am often drawn to subjects which have a sense of slippage such as the coast where wet mud or rock pools gives way to water which reflects the sky, or woods where light falling on a visual tangle creates tension between the form and weight of the subject and the play of light which both reveals and disguises it.
I tend to produce a group of paintings in each location and there are some places I have been working in for many years. Paintings are sometimes completed in a single session but more often I return to them aiming to carry on when the light and weather are similar. I paint quickly and relish the improvisations required by painting in front of a quickly changing subject.'
I was born in 1967 and studied Fine Art at Norwich School of Art 1986 – 1989
I was elected as a member of the New English Art Club in 2021
Selected Shows:
2024 The Russell Gallery, Putney, The Light and the Air - Solo show
2024 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Winter Show
2023 The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne, Winter Show
2023 Star Brewery Gallery, Sussex by the Sea - Solo show
2023 Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes, The Art of Biodiversity
2023 Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale Berkshire, Summer Exhibition
2023 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Capturing Life :A Century of the New English Art Club
2023 Alan Kluckow Fine Art at Stapleford Gallery, Cambridge Four Contemporary British Artists
2023 Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent The New English Art Club
2022 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2022 The Gallery Holt, Norfolk Harmony
2022 Russell Gallery, London Christmas Show
2022 Russell Gallery. London Summer Exhibition
2022 Panter and Hall, London Selected NEAC Members
2022 Chris Beetles Gallery, London The New English Art Club at Chris Beetles Gallery
2021 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2021 Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes (Solo)
2021 Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale Berkshire Summer Exhibition
2021 Russell Gallery, London, Christmas Show
2020 Mall Galleries, London, New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2019 Browns Gallery, Tain, Scotland
2019 Russell Gallery, London Christmas Exhibition
2019 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2019 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex
2019 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2018 Browns Gallery, Tain, Scotland
2018 Russell Gallery, Christmas Exhibition, London
2017 Browns Gallery, Tain, Scotland
2018 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2017 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2017 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2016 Mall Galleries, London Lynne Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition
2016 St Anne’s Galleries at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, , Lewes, East Sussex
2016 Mall Galleries, London New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
2015 Mall Galleries, London Royal Society of British Artists
2014 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2013 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
2012 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2012 Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire at The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea,
2012 Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale, Berkshire
2010 Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable, Kent
2010 Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale, Berkshire
2010 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2009 St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2008 HQ Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2008 Morgan Boyce Gallery at The Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh,
2008 Morgan Boyce Gallery at The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea,
2008 The Morgan Boyce Gallery, Marlborough
2007 HQ Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex
2007 HQ Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea,
2006 HQ Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex
2006 HQ Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2005 The Star Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex Portraits, (Solo)
2005 Shirley Crowther Contemporary Art at The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea,
2005 The Star Gallery, Lewes
2003 The Star Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2002 The Gallery in Cork St, Anna Mei Chadwick Gallery, London
2002 Collins and Hastie, Park Walk, Chelsea, London
2000 The Star Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex (Solo)
2000 Thebes Gallery Lewes East Sussex Lewes Contemporary Art,
1996 The Anna Mei Chadwick Gallery, Kings Rd, London Four Artists,
1995 The Roy Miles Gallery, Bruton St, London
1994 The Mall Galleries, London The Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award Finalists Exhibition,
1994 Gallery 10, Grosvenor St, London (Solo)
1994 The Roy Miles Gallery, Bruton St, London
1993 Charleston Farmhouse, Firle, East Sussex (Solo)
1992 Gallery 10, Grosvenor St, London (Solo)
1992 Gallery 10, Grosvenor St, London
1992 The Mall Galleries, London The Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award Finalists Exhibition,
Photograph by Mauro Arena