Collection Development
To follow is some brief information on the different collections on this site, to help contextualise them and to relate them to my own continual development.
21st Century Postcards
I’m currently working beach scenes which draw inspiration from my Margate surroundings. I’m trying to get my figures more niece than previous figure studies and indeed drawing people in mass means i have to get more sketchy and figures more stick like which pleases me more. I’m also playing with simplified colour bands and now experimenting with clouds.
Seascapes
Many of my seascapes have a zen (overly simplified) quality. Here I’m playing with layering, depth but also experimenting with colour ways. I’m deliberately subduing these seascapes as an exercise and in preparation for scenes that later incorporate figures. In future I’d like to achieve more dynamic scenes and to gather some more exciting photographic reference from Cornwall.
Waterlilies
Ok, so they’ve been done before by the greatest but something inside me wanted to get closer to understanding what the draw was and to see if anything could be learnt from tackling this subject. Infarct I’ve surprised myself by just how much I have learnt. I’m now seeking out different coloured lilly pads, inventing my own compositions to enhance the overall effect and more importantly I have had to grapple with a lot of green and blue and how to create colour variations between paintings. I could definitely paint waterlilies forever.
Contemporary Still life
Many of these works are in progress. I see them as an important contribution to my body of work entitled 21st Postcards. Subjects include marmite jars, rat killer, baked bean tins, perfume bottles and juice cartoons recognisable in my fuzzy sweet style.