I live and work on the edge of Constable Country on the Essex/Suffolk borders in Colchester with it’s magnificent castle. As well as the beautiful Stour Valley there are gloriously muddy creeks and estuaries and a changing coastline nearby. Meditatively walking and looking in these places provide the hook for a painting exploration in the studio. I am a landscape painter but of the inner weather as well as that which I am walking through.
I am not making a representational image of a view but I’m trying to get back to that feeling behind the glimpse, that sharp intake of breath, that conversation or moment of solace- the emotional experience of passing through.
The paintings should feel both familiar and imaginary for you.
This year I went further afield with residencies in Cornwall and Bradwell on Sea kindly funded by a Firstsite Bursary award. This project is called East Coast, West Coast.
Following a painting visit to the Dingle peninsula in September this project continues.
Recent Selected Exhibitions
2026
Constable to the Contemporary- Ipswich Museum, Christchurch Mansions
East Coast, West Coast-Oasis Gallery, Frinton
Autumn exhibition – Geedon Gallery, Fingringhoe
Light and Dark -Benham Gallery
Then and Now -The Minories, Colchester
Carry on Constable-The Granary, Flatford
2025
Winter Exhibition-The Minories, Colchester
The Sea, The Sea-North House Gallery
My Family and Other Animals-The Minories
Spring Edit-East Cliff House Gallery
River Stories- The Granary, Flatford
2D3D -Aldeburgh Gallery
2024
Winter Exhibition-The Minories, Colchester
Beneath the Clouds-The Granary, Flatford
Passing Through-Anteros Gallery Norwich
Curators Choice-Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios
The Beautiful East-Oasis Gallery, Frinton
2023
Art Fair East with ArtCan East Anglia
Winter Exhibition- The Minories
Artists of Today and tomorrow-Geedon Gallery
Take Five -142 Gallery, Felixstowe
Sanctuary- Leper Chapel Cambridge
Spring CAS exhibition at Benham Gallery
2022
Making the Landscape-Oasis, Frinton
A Change is in the Air-Sail Loft, Navistitch
Moverons- solo exhibition
2021
Autumn Exhibition-Geedon Gallery
Ardleigh Open Studios
A Cornucopia- North House Gallery, Manningtree
The Big Summer Exhibition- Oasis, Frinton
ArtCan group show-The News Building- Stories 01,
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