Venue
Venue Address
Hambeer Lane
Up from Cowick Lane
The Green Circle
Exeter
Venue Postcode
EX29NQ
What3Words
remark.impact.mats
Directions
From Cowick Lane, near the old public toilet block, walk up Hambeer Lane for 3-4 minutes. There will be signs & my Garden gate will be open. My studio is just thorough the gate on the left, You can't miss it!
Parking
The bottom of Hambeer Lane/Cowick Hill/Cowick Lane or Broadway
Venue Facilities
Artist statement
My work explores colour, shape, texture and balance. I use acrylics to achieve areas of perfect colour, contrasted with the rougher, more expressive marks of oil bar and chalk. What appears simple is the result of careful consideration, built up over time using different mediums.
My work appears abstract but its colours & forms are often drawn from nature.
Extended Bio
I’m an abstract artist based in Devon. After graduating from art school in the early 2000s, I moved to London & found myself running a busy kitchen in Primrose Hill, thriving on the creativity and immediacy of cooking, loving the pace, late nights & camaraderie of the professional kitchen. Throughout that time, I was visiting galleries, discovering artists who have continued to influence me; Cy Twombly, Miró, Basquiat, Ellsworth Kelly. During this time I never stopped drawing.
I now run a catering company in Devon, but have recently turned fully back to painting, something I always knew I would do. The drive to make work has always been there and I now spend as much time as possible in my studio.
My work explores colour, shape, texture and balance. I use acrylics to achieve areas of perfect colour, contrasted with the rougher, more expressive marks of oil bar and chalk. Layers of line in pen or pencil add further depth. What appears simple is the result of careful consideration, built up over time & with different mediums.
My palette is rooted in close observation of nature; the greens of lichen, moss and mulchy forest floors, and the contrast of pale, sugary/neon skies against dark, earthy horizons. My work reads as purely abstract, but its colours are often drawn from nature.
