Marked by strong expressive character my work is excited and detonated into expression of what happens at the tensions between the apparently `out there` and the intimacy of moments of engagement, feeling, memory: bodies and places: figuration and abstraction merge and flow. The work momentarily articulates its own patinas as it emerges; pieces of performance in searching, working at that tension of realisation and its illusion. Moments made mobile, soft or urgent, passingly reflective or deeply felt: Andalucia, Donegal, west Cornwall; southern Sweden; the garden, the studio, being with people.  
I work mainly in paint, increasingly larger oils and fleeting strong watercolours; charcoal and mixed media including varied pastels, expressed in a continually developing body of work.
I have been deeply influenced by Peter Lanyon`s painting`s expressions of merging in the spaces around me, feeling part a shared world; by Roger Hilton`s going nearer the edge and his abstract realities; Diebenkoorn`s wonderful colour.
I have had over a dozen solo and group shows.

Shows 2008-9
Wirkswirth Open Studios September 2008
Southwell Open Studios October 2008
“artopen” group show at Malt Cross Nottingham November 2008
The Old George Gallery, Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire March-April 2009 [Solo]

Earlier shows
Wirkswirth 2003
Bull Yard Southwell [Solo] 2003
University of Derby 2001
Through the 1990s my work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, theatre and library galleries in Essex, Anglia Ruskin University

Participation in art events includes:
Performing space, Nottingham Trent University 2008
Refuge exhibition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2003
Art-transpennine festival Liverpool/Lancaster 1998
Bloom 98 Birmingham 1998