Winter On The Moor iii

My work is a statement of my feelings and emotions for a given place or event. I love wide-open spaces and big skies, the levels and moors being my inspiration. I do not want to depict them but want to express my feelings for them, and create work that can be, felt. I aim to invite you into an inner world, reaching beyond the material into the realm of the psyche, giving the viewer a notion of peace and hope. I use mark-making as a way of connecting the viewer and evoking a response. My work is often described as emotional and moving.

I live and work in Somerset and spend the winter months on the moors and levels, wondering and sketching, loving the freedom, and imbibing the essence of the places I choose to stop and sketch in. These sketches will form the basis for the work I will do in the coming year. 

Working in oils, I spend many hours mixing colour to achieve the palette that expresses my emotions for a given subject, be that a place or event.

Our lives are made up of millions of tiny moments, both positive and negative. They appear and disappear, triggered by a word a moment in time, a colour, a place a smile building layer upon layer. This is how my paintings are built, layering, and glazing the paint influences the paintings' outcome, each layer building, a picture of memory and experience. The work is a conversation between me and the materials when in progress, and then between the finished piece and the viewer, who will then bring their life experience to the work.

'Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.'
- Charles G. Stater

I use oil pastel, oil sticks, markers, and scrapers charcoal and pigment sticks, newspaper and graphite to make marks whichever fits the moment

UV protected, Signed on the back. The work is on plywood panel and is ready to hang. 

Oil on Cradled Board

30x30cm

Unframed