About The Artist

I was born in Oxford in 1970 and went to Headington School. I am a painter of people, landscape and still lives. I studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1990-1994 and took part in an exchange at the New York Studio School in 1993. I came up to Newcastle in 1995 to do an MA in Fine Art at the University of Northumbria. I am inspired by the expressionist spirit of northern Europe particularly painters like Emil Nolde, Vincent Van Gogh, Chaim Soutine and Egon Schiele. I love the directness of these artist’s work, their enjoyment of the substance of paint and their visceral response to their subjects. I am inspired by the energy of American artists including Willem De Kooning and Alice Neel. I love De Kooning’s energetic, gestural brush strokes and Neel’s direct, distinctive approach to portraiture. Personally, I enjoy the immediacy and intensity of painting people and having a time limit to capture their humanity and vulnerability.