Artworks

I look, observe and represent seascapes and landscapes through the physical and expressive process of drawing and painting in oils. My aim is to feel part of the seascape in a dynamic sense leading towards abstraction. Since studying at the Slade and completing my BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins I’ve been influenced by many great artists including Turner, Ivon Hitchens, Auerbach and Diebenkorn. The paintings in this exhibition, “The call of the running tide” (from the poem ‘Sea Fever’ by John Masefield) were started “en plein air” in Cornwall, where I was a student at Newlyn School of Art studying with the artist Jack Davis. The weather was atrocious and sitting outside on the wet and windy rocks in full waterproofs, I tried to capture the different moods of the sea and sky by drawing and painting how the water, clouds and tide on the rocks shifted the space and created different dramas minute by minute. These paintings represent three different places on the Cornish Coast near Penzance and St Just over five days. I returned to the Open Studio in the Chelsea School of Art where I developed the works into whole paintings over several months, taking advice from the artist Enver Güsev.