About

After studying Fine Art at Medway College of Art and then at Falmouth College of Art, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a Diploma in Scene Painting.

Since then I have worked as a scene painter for theatre, film and TV, including work for Dennis Potter, Mike Leigh and most recently working on Slow Horses series for Apple TV.

 I have always maintained my own studio practice alongside this work and in the last five years my own painting and printmaking has taken precedence. Since then I have shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2024) and most recently at London Original Print Fair with Brook Street Gallery, and also several smaller shows including the Lido Stores in Margate and at Frank in Whitstable. My work is in many private collections and has been shown internationally including in Dubai.

I make abstract geometric paintings and prints, often initiated by a chance glimpse of colour or shape during my daily activities. Recently I have been producing a series of paintings and prints ‘Sennen’ a series named after the beach in Cornwall and reflecting the vibrancy of the colours there in summer. The underlying stripes of colour speak to the dress, towels and swimming costumes of the beachgoers, as well as the kaleidoscope of sand and sky.

 As a member of Porthmeor Printmaking Workshop, I have been developing a series of monoprints which were exhibited at Frank in Whitstable, Kent in 2024. I will be showing my prints at Newlyn Art Gallery where I have been accepted as part of their programme for September/October 2025.


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