About

Bright futures I (2021)

Oil on linenl 30 x 30cm

b. 1973 UK, Durham

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Bio

Born and brought up in the north east of England, I completed a degree course in Fine Art in 1995 at the University of Central Lancashire, moved to Edinburgh in 1995

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Practice

I work from a home studio, painting on a large easel using traditional oil paints on fine grade linen and panels, which I prime and sand with several coats to a smooth finish

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Inspiration

I take inspiration from many sources, the local environment, people, found images, and admire classic, modern and contemporary painters

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What is my work about

In my work I try to capture some aspects of what it means to be alive, imagination and memory of places before technology and travel when the world was a bigger place, temporary and fleeting experience, light, love, nature, inevitable decay of things, greek mythology and how earlier civilisations made sense of the world

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I am drawn to pigments and colour and so at a very simple level, whether abstract or figurative, my work is also simply about the colour

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