I work from my studio near Ditchling Common in Mid Sussex, close to the South Downs National Park and only a stone’s throw from Ashdown Forest and the Sussex coast. Growing up in Brighton and studying at Eastbourne College of Art before graduating from Brighton University with a BA Hons in Illustration in 1990, Sussex has always been my home and my greatest source of inspiration — its vast skies, its chalk downs, its coastline and its particular shifting quality of light.
After a career in print and publishing I returned to making art in 2013, and have been exhibiting widely across the South East and beyond ever since. From 2019 to 2022 I served as Chair of the Chalk Gallery in Lewes, a well-regarded cooperative artist-led gallery. My work is held in private collections and available through selected galleries in Sussex.
I work exclusively in Indian Inks - a medium I love for its ancient roots, its lightfast permanence, and the sparkling luminosity it brings to everything I make.
Artist Statement
I am a Sussex-based artist working in Indian inks an ancient luminous medium whose sparkling intensity and immediacy suit my deeply instinctive way of working. I paint from feeling rather than formula, from memory rather than location, drawn always by the particular quality of light , colour and atmosphere that Sussex offers in such extraordinary abundance.
My Framescapes dissolve the boundary between painting and object. Working on wooden tray frames, the landscape continues across both the central panel and frame - the sky, the meadow, the light flowing uninterrupted from image into surround. Intimate enough to hold, designed to reward close looking, each is a complete world in miniature.
My Wood Panel Paintings are where the Sussex landscape breathes most freely - ink on birchwood, bold and immediate, capturing the particular quality of light that shifts almost imperceptibly across the Downs and coastline that I have regarded as home all my life.
My Triptychs honour the Sussex panorama — from the high ridges of the South Downs to the water’s edge in Brighton. Painted from memory rather than on location, they capture mood and sensation rather than topographical record. The triptych format carries centuries of association with devotion and contemplation - and it is precisely that reverence for landscape that draws me to working across three panels.
My Collages were born from pure creative compulsion - works driven by instinct, emotion and an irrepressible love of colour, pattern and the natural world. Pomegranates, shells, flowers, fruit — rendered with a jewel-like intensity that rewards close and repeated looking. Each tells a specific story, a feeling held in the making.
I am drawn to artists who broke convention instinctively - Turner’s insistence that light and atmosphere were subjects in their own right, Hodgkin’s refusal to let the frame be merely a boundary, Kiefer’s transformation of landscape into layered emotional terrain. I don’t consciously follow them. I recognise in them something already present in my own impulse - a shared understanding that colour carries feeling, that familiar subjects seen afresh can take the breath away, and that the most honest work comes not from formula but from somewhere deeper and less easily explained.
Familiar yet seen afresh. A complete world. A landscape that contains its own edges.
A selection of seasonal original paintings and prints can be found at Artologie in Cuckfield, and at Greenfinch in Ticehurst.
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Selected exhibitions
2025
Star Brewery Gallery, Artwave Festival, Lewes.
South Downs OPEN, Petersfield Museum.
2024
Summer OPEN, Montague Gallery, Worthing.
2023
Guildford House Open, Guildford Surrey
Star Brewery Gallery, Artwave Festival, Lewes.
2022
Modern Love, Artologie Gallery, Cuckfield.
2021
The Tree Show, Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes
Brighton Open Houses, Fiveways trail.
2019
London Ultra, Bargehouse at Oxo, Tower Bankside, London
Different Art Fair, Fitzrovia, London.
Surrey Contemporary Art Fair
2017
Treasures of the Land and Sea, Solo exhibition, Littlehampton.
Works held in private collections