\u201cArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time\u201d Thomas Merton
\nPainting and drawing are central to my art practice and allows me to explore the space between fact and fiction. I’m interested in the possibilities of narrative, however suggestive, and in invoking atmosphere and emotion. The figure is also central in my work but it is rarely about the subjects themselves, rather a complex layering of emotion, experience and imaginings.
\nWhilst I am primarily a painter I love the immediacy and flexibility that can come from working in pencil and coloured pen. I have always been drawn to the back of a figures and I\u2019m interest in how much can be conveyed through the way the figure inhabits the space of the painting or drawing.
\nThe Paper Doll Series has developed over some time when I became interested in using flat pattern in contrast with the almost hyper-realism of the figure. The idea behind \u201cPaper Dolls\u201d stems from the childhood memories of occupying myself with cutting out paper dolls (and their outfits) that often featured in the Bunty and Judy annuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time\u201d Thomas Merton Painting and drawing are central to my art practice and allows me to explore the space between fact and fiction. I’m interested in the possibilities of narrative, however suggestive, and in invoking atmosphere and emotion. The figure is also central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2812,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"artist_category":[403,311],"admin_artist_categories":[402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_artists\/2815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ga_artists"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_category?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"admin_artist_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/admin_artist_categories?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}