Although I trained as a designer I have always drawn and painted.
My painting work has gradually taken over and now I sell through the internet, exhibit at the GSAS and through a couple of local galleries.
I paint peak district landscapes in styles between classic and modern on canvases using a mix of acrylics and oils.
Landscape painting to me is less about the technique of applying paint to a canvas and is more about the way the eye and the brain knows, interprets and understands the effect of light on coloured surfaces.
I have always been involved with the interplay of light, colour, form and meaning I have come to understand that our eyes are only 20% of the input to that part of our brain (cerebral cortex) that is generates what we “see," the other 80% comes from memories already stored.
What we see is a blend of what visual data enters our eyes elaborated and explained with the use of the memory of previously experienced scenes.
The teasing and entrainment of this perception is what I am exploring in my work.
I strive to emote memories in the viewer of landscapes seen by them before by the use of painted cues.
I seek to arouse our internal landscapes.
My Father and his father before him were painters too - I like to think we have all been trying to understand the way we see landscape.
I fully understand completely that the selection of a painting to buy is an important and personal decision and that photographs on a website can only go so far, so please feel free to contact me and I can provide larger images.
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Size: 28.00" x 28.00"
Price: £168.00
