ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Since my real interest and ambition lie in composition, painting
or the process of mark making it enables, is a most appropriate
vehicle
in the handling and transformation of particular material,
which in my case is photographic imagery.
By composition I do not
mean
just arranging or general arrangement, however crucial they
are to supporting the central activity, but
the prioritising of more or less developing form being inherent
if not
realised or resolved in the photograph.
In attempting to
create some kind of visual order and optical sense to the formal
relationships
observed, figuration, illustration
and depiction remain at the very most, only secondary
concerns or even
incidental.
My ultimate aim in giving expression to my
responses is I feel best achieved or at least tested in this way.
GENERAL
INFORMATION
Much of my painting is influenced by my interest in classical
and contemporary music, and have produced many commissioned
portraits of musicians, composers and critics, including:-
- Lord and Lady
Menuhin
- Sir Michael Tippett
- Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge
- Alfred Brendel
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Sir Edward Heath
- Sir Andrjez Panufnik
- Sir Georg Solti
- Edward Greenfield
More recent portraits outside the musical world have included
those of the Pro Vice Chancellor of Roehampton University and
the retiring
Chair of Governors of the University of Northampton as well
as a group portrait for a former Head of HTV to celebrate her
eightieth
birthday.
I have also produced paintings based
on images of mainly 19th and 20th Century composers, including
Chopin, Brahms Mahler,
Rachmaninov,
Ravel,
Bartok, Stravinsky, Berg and Britten as well work from the
sea and landscape, particularly fields of sunflowers and poppies.
Exhibitions of my work have included one-man shows at:-
- Royal
Festival Hall, London
- St David’s Hall, Cardiff
- Richmond Gallery, Cork Street, London
- Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
I also have work on permanent display in public venues, including:-
- St David’s Hall, Cardiff - Large Igor Stravinsky painting
- Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool - Two large paintings of Serge
Rachmaninov and Sir Charles Groves, together with
three paintings of the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
I have also had work reproduced by the E.M.I. and Conifer
Recording Companies as well as J M Dent and Athena
International.
I am currently working for an exhibition at the Orleans
House Gallery, Richmond for 2008.
For further information about my work please contact me |
