Hello
Firstly, welcome to my website!
I’ve been drawing and painting for most of my life but I really started to concentrate on art in 2022 after taking early retirement.
Most of my pictures are in acrylics and many feature the sea and landscape of the Isle of Wight, where I’ve lived since 2001.
Although I’m still very much a studio painter, I started experimenting with plein air work in 2023 and have come to appreciate the immediacy that it brings. Now my work is split between studio paintings – which take longer are often more experimental – and plein air work where my focus is on an immediate and simplified response to the landscape around me.
So what pulls the paintings together? Well, colour is obviously important. I like vibrant colours and tend to exaggerate the saturation levels in my pictures. I also like texture and will often try different ways of applying paint to create new ones.
Simplification is also key. I quite often paint in a way that makes it difficult to apply detail, whether that’s using a palette knife to build up a composition in sections, or simply just using a bigger brush. This approach is particularly evident in the plein air paintings that I did in the second half of 2025 (big brush / small surface), where I wanted to move away from detail after an intense period of painting complicated, heavily textured pictures.
The more I paint (especially outside) the more I focus on creating an immediate response to my surroundings and the less I worry about getting things “right”. I’m looking for a sense of energy in my pictures and in 2025 I found that painting to a strict time limit was a useful way of achieving this. If you don’t have much time, you really can’t spend it on anything that is not essential.
I’m a member of the Isle of Wight Art Club and joined the National Acrylic Painters Association (NAPA) in 2024. I have exhibited on the Isle of Wight and Sidmouth and in 2025 one of my paintings (Cow on Culver) was accepted for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries in London.
In June 2025 I took part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (Heat 5, Pod 8) at St James’s Park, which aired on Sky Arts on 21 January 2026.
I hope you enjoy looking at the paintings in the gallery section. I plan to add a shop to the website in the future for prints and some originals and may even write the occasional blog post! If you have any questions or any other comments, please get in touch using the contact form, I’d love to hear from you.