ARTIST STATEMENT

ARTIST STATEMENT

The work originates from my responses to the studio space. I am interested in the deconstructing and reconstructing of architectural spaces. Each work ‘eats itself’ and the next is spawned, whilst misty veils and rainy daubs make the invisible, visible.  The works belie a longstanding fascination with the presence of absence; generating self-reflection and interrogation of space and memory, through photography, printmaking, drawing and dreaming, all of which, seep into these new paintings…

Mychildhood…drawing on engineering drawings, bening shown ruins, ind arch, bridges histories.

War, Japan, photos, maps, nuclear war, cold war

In my careerin PR and Marketing my work has involved working I have worked in tqo heavily bombed cities, Coventry and Hull. Two major construction projects. Cov….

Hull….Deep M Project…arch sir Terry Farrell, passionate about it 50m PR…fave bit working with film crews…and artists exhibs. From prep ground, pulling up old spaggeti like,,steel enforcments to the walking journos round the building site to walking the arch round his finished building..shiny builf-ng

Telling stories…emotion

Wk to be read close up and from a dist, both drawing in and repelling

MUSIC…working with…

As a tourism officerin Cov, I was involvd in promoting Coventry Cathedral, both the ruis and the modern cathedralmand its artifacts

Ongoing fascination with ansence and presence. Deconstructing architectural spaces. Now able to focus on …..bereavement loss

Post apocalyptical, cold was r

And now bereavement…sense of loss, anger etc all apparent in recent paintings, tachists like massive veile of tears…..

Influences,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,artists

Architecture, film……

Buildings thru time..The bank….

All gone or underwater,,,,,,,,,Impermanence of us, buildings.

Quotes

Process fascination