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13th August - 20th September2009

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My work is concerned with the inevitable transience of existence in which nothing that exists can be truly permanent. The environment, both natural and man-made, is always fluid as is humankind passing through it. In the works from the Granada region of Spain, and Sicily the paint depicts the fluidity of the physical environment: land masses that will change with the seasons and millennia, and that are never the same even between the stroke of a brush.
Similarly the work at the Farmhouse seeks the evolving space and lives that have occupied it: the shadows and echoes of what has been and what might yet come. My work is not concerned with a depiction of a permanent record, but with the inevitability of shift and transformation, the relentless march of time that defines existence.

Since graduating in Fine Art I have worked from studios in Hertford and, since 2006, as a Fellow with Digswell Arts Trust at Fairlands Valley Farmhouse, Stevenage I have exhibited locally and nationally including the Royal Academy of Art, and the Royal College of Art as a 'Hunting Art Prize' finalist.

Top left, "Farmhouse Inside" Top right," Farmhouse outside" Bottom left, "Granada" Bottom right "Granada 7"
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Left, "Shift 2" Right, "Shift 1" Bottom, detail

This collection of new work represents my response to a passion, held since childhood, for the diversity of form, colour and texture in the natural world.
"Outcrop" as a title may provide a clue as to why I have sought expression for these sculptures which combine complementary geometric shapes and organic forms.
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