My Art Work

My work is inspired by native art from around the world, and the abstract painters of the 20th century. The simplicity of native decoration and the complexity of abstract art have always held a fascination for me ever since childhood. What is it that makes colour and shapes, bring out emotions in your mind.

The paintings that I do are all about exploring lines, shapes and colour and why presenting them in different ways creates different emotions, in a similar way that instrumental music does. Everyone will have their own thought patterns when listening to music, they will also have similar thoughts when looking at an abstract picture. All I try to do with my pictures is to stimulate those thought patterns.

Approach

My approach is to make quality abstract art for all, simple as that!

About me

I am an artist living and working in Falmouth, Cornwall. I was born in 1952, in a small village in Somerset, England, called North Cadbury. After leaving school I went to study at the Yeovil School of Art before going on to study at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall.

After leaving college and hitting the real world and finding I had to earn a living, life became a constant battle between doing my painting and earning a living wage. This battle went on for at least the next 10 years before I decided that earning a living was my priority and painting had to take second place. I never stopped painting in fact all my spare time was taken up doing my art work and visiting art galleries.
So at the age of 34 I decided to move from Cornwall and went to live in London where there was more work and I was closer to all the art galleries and the art world in general. At this time I thought that if I worked and saved really hard the time would come when I would have enough money to concentrate on my painting full time.

Well to cut a long story short, it took me 20 years to achieve my dream, it sounds a long time, but for all those years, in my mind, I was living as an artist I just wasn't producing the amount of work that I would off liked. Looking back I have no regrets, I paint now with so much freedom and peace of mind that I don't have to worry about my paintings being liked, but I hope that they are.. What- ever happens I will never stop painting, without painting I would be nothing, I was born to paint.