Venue
Venue Address
6 Fair View Terrace
Exmouth
EX8 2JX
Venue Postcode
EX8 2JX
What3Words
ruled.broker.nests
Directions
Access is at the back through the garden. If approaching from Ryll Grove to Marpool Hill, go straight up a small road between terraced houses before the road veers right up to Marpool hill.
Parking
There is a space for 1 car outside the studio and parking in the area.
Venue Facilities
Artist statement
I'm an Artist and Illustrator inspired by landscape and the everyday. I love drawing from life, exploring people and place, and bring elements of these into abstract paintings. I'm interested in inviting a conversation between my art and the viewer, whether through a drawing of a seemingly everyday street scene, a surreal collage, or an abstract painting.
Extended Bio
I am interested in inviting a conversation between my art and the viewer, whether it be through a drawing of a seemingly everyday street scene, a surreal collage, or an abstract painting.
Through painting I am interested in creating spaces that invite the viewer to participate in a dialogue, developing their own relationship with the work. I like to create suggestions of narrative but enjoy the ambiguous nature and the individual interpretations and dialogue that result. Many of my abstract paintings explore themes of memory and a sense of place.
The process for my abstract pieces is physical and is integral to my work. I apply multiple layers and a reductive process to slowly build up a history of marks. Whilst I apply a lot of physical energy to my works I enjoy the dichotomy of my presence being largely absent from the finished pieces. My painting practice is of a intuitive and organic nature. I work with the painting, which largely dictates the direction itself, guided by a sense of what I am looking to capture. This is often not fully visualised until it emerges, resulting in a mixture of design and spontaneity.
Whilst my paintings remain abstract I am very much inspired by my surroundings, particularly change in people, place and architecture. I often draw on location as research and to practice capturing a sense of the place and my surroundings through observational drawing. This intuitive and connected approach translates to my abstract work. I apply underlying hints of form and structure as I work towards capturing a sense, a feeling, or an unvisited memory.
On first appearance my work can be quite varied as I work across a range of media from collage, to drawings, to abstract paintings. Underlying all strands there is an ambiguity and a sense of time and place which hopefully invites the viewer to engage, and poses more questions than answers.
