Biografia

Post Grad Dip Fine Art. Arnhem , the Netherlands. 1995 moved back to Bristol Uk. Worked at the Outside Door Gallery and Jam Studios. Painting and working in mental health. Painting is the desire and the game I play alone. I was influenced by painters like Goya, Tapies, William de Kooning and the impressionists too. The light and colour of Bonnard. The Mediterranean light.

I first came to Barcelona in 1993 , to do an Erasmus programme. I painted out in the street and realised my paintings are of an internal world responding to the external world. The light is important. I came to live in Barcelona many years ago but I have left and come back often.Recently living and working in Hong Kong I've been painting the enormous skies and landscapes seen from the ferry travelling to the city from Lamma Island. The paintings done in Hong Kong were also based on reactions to external experiences with my internal world of moods and emotions, changing everyday like the cloud formations.

In Hong Kong I worked with a group of refugees every Friday doing art workshops. These people were so proud of the work they did and so excited about using colour through paint. Their enthusiasm and modesty gave me a different outlook. Art is about communication and connection with others. I set up a workshop to join the African refugees with local people in a project to create a mural based on the work of Hokusai. It was a success, resulting friendly cooperation, networking and further plans to work together. I also organised an exhibition for the refugees where they could show their work and talk to the public. It was a small group of people from Yemen, Eritrea, Togo,Somalia and Ethiopia. I learned a lot from working with them.

I am now living in Tarragona. On lockdown, confinamiento. No quiero volver al normalidad. Quiero pintar mas.