Hello

Firstly, welcome to my website!

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​I’ve been drawing and painting for most of my life but I really started to concentrate on art in 2022 after my career in insurance came to an end. 

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​Most of my pictures are in acrylics, (though I very occasionally dabble in watercolours and oils) and many feature the sea and the landscape of the Isle of Wight, where I’ve lived since 2001.

I tend to use a brighter palette and rarely blend my colours together. I like to experiment with different ways of applying paint to create textures and patterns. This sometimes results in my pictures having a mosaic-like appearance, which borders on the abstract at times. It also means I can get through a lot of masking tape!

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​Most of my pictures are painted in the studio, though I started doing some work outside during 2023 and have come to appreciate the immediacy that plein air painting brings, though I obviously have a lot to learn.     

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​I’m a member of the Isle of Wight Art Club and joined the National Acrylic Painters Association (NAPA) in 2025. I have exhibited at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight and Kennaway House in Sidmouth and also participate in the Isle of Wight Under the Bed Sale. Rather extraordinarily, in June 2025 I took part in Landscape Artist of the Year (Heat 5, Pod 8) at St James’s Park which, I’m told, will air on Sky Arts in early 2026.  

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