Big Sky at Exmouth

Avid sketchbook keeper, I draw a lot and it keeps me grounded. Currently I’m drawing around the edges of Dartmoor where I live, to my home town of Paignton, often from the car on a school run and all the places in  between! I like to integrate landscapes, people sketches, food experiences and some quirky observations often creep in. I enjoy creating medleys of artwork that really give a sense of place.

After school I went to South Devon College to do Art Foundation and then began my creative career in animation, making short films for Channel4 and working on adverts and in childrens tv. A couple of highlights include receiving a BAFTA nomination 2003 for a short film I created called Wedding Espresso and I am mentioned in Animation, A World History Vol III.

I always felt a yearning to be an illustrator especially when I was animating thousands of animated images - Now concentrating on just one image is dreamy! I can pour all of my energy into a single image - but also having an eye out for animated possibilities.

I returned to Devon after thirty years away and now I find a renewed connection by sketching and painting the places I grew up in.

Exmouth Beach is so vast it dwarfs the Sunday strollers, horse riders and many dogs - and one has no option but to feel how big the world is. With the ever changing light, clouds and tide no two moments are the same - I was drawn to the sweeping cloud shapes and an outline of Dawlish in the distance.

Watercolour

16x20cm

Framed under glass