Portrayals

These paintings of women were inspired by old news footage and photographs from the 1920s and 1930s. They arose from an interest in female voices and female agency. The Three Grac(i)es and The Silence were selected by curator, consultant and arts speaker, Jo Baring, for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, London 2020. 

The Silence, 2020 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)

The Three Grac(i)es, 2020 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)

The Bathers I, 2020 (oil on wooden panel, 18x24cm)

The Friends, 2018 (oil on Canvas)

The Way, 2018 (oil on canvas 26x18cm)

The Girl on a Girder, 2018 (oil on canvas, private collection)

Coast

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A series of oils on canvas (2007-2008) inspired by the the edges where the land meets the sea in Sussex, Dungeness, and northern Scotland [Small square paintings 25 x 25 cm|

Peering

Belle Tout

Birling Gap

Floatiing

Seaford Head

Gardenstoun

Tombstoning

Falling

Caravanserai

 ‘Caravanserai’ is a traditional name for an inn or place of rest for journeying caravans. This series of small paintings are united by a particular cultural appeal, forming a series of imperfect commemorative pieces. Each half differs slightly from the other; a detail changed: occupied/ unoccupied; a different day; an object left on view. Some of the caravans are real; some fictional; most started with a photograph or film still. The initial stimulus was a photograph of a dweller on the edge of society – the caravan home of nun and art lover, Sister Wendy Beckett. In one half of the diptych the door is ajar; in the other, the door is closed. The caravan of trapeze artist, Marion, from the film Wings of Desire, followed and the series grew. While hinting at the dweller within, the paintings offer limited information to the viewer, merely suggesting ungraspable, individual narratives.

Sister Wendy's I&II (private collection)

Marion's I&II

The Gamekeeper's Retreat I&II

Dungeness I&II (private collection)

Rudi's I&II

A Welsh Poet Remembers I&II (private collection)

The Sound Recordist's I&II