Helen Frankenthaler says “A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image”.
The moments when your head and heart synchronise to produce such a work come when you are not looking. Just as you are caught by an unexpectedly beautiful image as you turn a corner and have left your camera at home. It may be that the image has always been there and it’s only the synchronicity of head and heart that allows you to see it on this occasion.
My practice appears to come from the Japanese literary style that believes the truest representation of the searching mind is to ‘follow the brush’ or in my case ‘follow the pencil’, drawing and developing ideas across shadows, light and fleeting moments. I enjoy taking a concept and carrying it across other materials when an idea allows.
Chance and balance play a big part in how the work develops and the possibility of something ‘just happening’ as I follow my pencil brings me to a place, in the end, where I stand back to look at the work and ask: did I make a beautiful picture?
Currently researching and developing ideas on shadows, light and fleeting moments using graphite, with some work incorporating acrylic paint and ink. I enjoy taking a concept and carrying it across into other materials when an idea allows. Chance and balance play a big part in how the work develops …
Lives and works in London.
Education
Wimbledon College of Art
MA Drawing – Distinction, 2015 -2017
Awarded the Marcus Beale Architect’s Drawing Prize
Wimbledon College of Art
BA Fine Art Painting – First Class Honours, 2009-2015
Royal College of Art
MARCA Graphic Design, 1977-1979
Hornsey College of Art
BA Graphic Design, 1974-1977
Brighton College of Art
Foundation 1973-1974
Exhibitions
Merton Arts Festival
Reflection & Transformation
at Wimbledon College of Art
15 – 22 Sept 2017
Group show
Wimbledon College of Art MA Degree Show
September 2017
Group show
Wimbledon College of Art
unframed
September 2017
Group Show
C4RD
New Perspectives
June 2017
Group show
RWA – The Royal West of England Academy
Drawn Biennial
1 April – 4 June 2017
Group show
The Art Space Gallery, Cass Arts, Kingston
The Same Difference
24 February – 4th March 2017
Group Show
Mall Galleries
FBA – Futures
9-20 January 2017
Group show
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
Drawn Together
October 2016
Group show
Wimbledon College of Art
in the frame
September 2016
Group show
Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery
Sixty
May 13 – 22 May 2016
Group Show
C4RD
Out of Line
April 2016
Group show
We ALL Draw @UAL
November 2015
Group show at We All Draw Symposium
at the Barge House
Angus-Hughes Gallery
Summer Open
September 2015
Group show
Wimbledon College of Art Degree show
June 2015
Group Show
Nudes
Hepsibah Gallery
February 2015
Solo Show
Aldeburgh Exhibition
Peter Pears Gallery
October/November 2014
Collaboration with two artists
Park14
Cannizaro Park sculpture show
Spring 2014
Work selected and shown
Group show
Wells Art Contemporary (WAC)
Autumn 2013
Work selected and shown
Group sho
10 out of 10
Vyner Street Gallery
Spring 2012
Concept, curation and collaboration to produce an exhibition for
10 artists
Capsticks
2011 and 2012
Work selected and shown two years running
Group shows
Door Prize
Spring 2012
Work selected and shown
Group show
BurTur Award
2011
Shortlisted
Luxury
2011
Part of series of shows at Wimbledon College of Art
Black Barn
Collaborative group show every year since 2008 (apart from 2014, 2015 and 2016)
Hepsibah Gallery
February 2008
Solo Show
Royal Society of Arts
1976
1st place, Student Bursary competition