 My favourite subject at school and for fun was art and I had a lot of encouragement from my art teacher, but I was also advised to stick to science subjects as a sensible career path. This resulted in a degree in Zoology which I thought would help me become a natural history illustrator. A diploma in Graphic Design followed and I did receive some commissions from publishers. I was living on the South Coast and found plenty of outlets for my other paintings of local scenes and this soon became my main way of earning a living.
Later I developed a small business supplying prints of my local scenes to gift shops and galleries as well as taking on regular animal portrait work. By chance I also got into artist impression work for the building trade. This helped me strengthen my skills in perspective and visualisation.
I've always wanted to do more creative painting and over the years have made many experiments. I moved up to the Vale of Evesham in 1998 and by 2005 I had started to create surreal alterations to the Cotswold landscape using the skills I had learned doing artist impressions. Suddenly I was producing weird compositions that took on a life of their own as I painted.
The Stone Gallery, Burford tried them out in 2005 and proved to me that other people found these strange compositions attractive. Since my solo show in 2009 I have exhibited more widely and entered a couple of art festivals in 2010, acquiring a highly commended prize in the Broadway Art Festival, which led to an invitation to exhibit at Broadway Modern.
My way of painting has always been conservative in style as I have never been able to cope with the wilder ways to use paint or mixed media. So it is exciting to find that by using traditional painting techniques to subvert the conventions of reality I can produce work that is appropriate for the 21st Century.
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Size: 18.50" x 14.00"
Price: £550.00