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I returned to oil painting in 2022 after moving to East Kent. Vast skies, farming landscapes, moody seas and so many buildings that reek of past dramas: irresistible scenes are all around and these have been my main subjects to date.
The attempt to capture sights that inspire me and my own emotional response is a continuing challenge: a flicker of sunlight amongst showers, the rhythm of hop poles stripped of bines, the visual cacophony of backyard clutter, intense colours amongst everyday surroundings. At the same time I delight in the messiness of the painted surface.
Exploring, experiments and failures are part of the fun and occasionally lead to unexpected successes. After playing about with paints for a couple of years I am finding ways of doing things that are starting to work for me. Whether en plein air, from memory or from photographs, I usually prepare a coloured ‘ground’ – an equivalent for me of the key of a song – that permeates and holds together the whole piece.
Then I paint quickly, seeking a feeling - a vital moment - that seems halfway between a sketch and a ‘finished’ work -– with few, if any, subsequent touches.
In 2025, I was accepted into the East Kent Art Society and started exhibiting and selling locally in open and mixed exhibitions and at the Natasha Pearl Gallery in Bekesbourne.
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