CURRICULUM VITAE
The majority of my practice involves the use of egg tempera and gold leaf on hand-made gesso panels. About 25 years ago I was taught the ancient techniques of egg tempera and gilding, when I attended classes run by Jane Knott, a well known egg tempera teacher and painter. I always felt that the medium could be used in a more contemporary way and I have spent many years revisiting and exploring this beautiful medium, using multi-layered glazes, combined with drawing into the gesso surface of the panel. My work sometimes has an abstract quality and my inspiration is derived from the landscape, nature, the human form and collections of meaningful objects.
Although egg tempera has a tradition of being used in a very disciplined way to portray saints and angels, its luminous quality, brilliance of colour and sensual surface, make it an exciting and wide-ranging medium for a more contemporary approach. I currently work at Commercial Square Studios in High Wycombe, along with many other artists. Examples of my work can be seen by clicking into my two galleries under the Gallery link above - 'Egg Tempera Gallery' and 'Acrylic Gallery'.
I have a first class honours degree in Fine Art Practice.
Art Qualifications:
‘O’ Level and ‘A’ level Art
City & Guilds Life Drawing - Awarded 2001 Amersham & Wycombe College
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - Awarded 2001 Amersham & Wycombe College with Distinction
HND Fine Art with Distinction - Awarded 2003 Amersham & Wycombe College Nominated for Student of the Year Award
BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice with 1st Class Honours - Awarded 2004 Bucks Chilterns University College
Recent Exhibitions:
2017 'The Last Show' at Commercial Square Studios , High Wycombe, Bucks
2017 Wooburn Festival Visual Arts Show, Wooburn, Bucks
2016 River and Rowing Museum, Henley -on-Thames, OXON (Part of Henley Arts Trail)
2016 Bucks Open Studios at Commercial Square Studios , High Wycombe, Bucks
2016 The Square Umbrella Pop Up Gallery, Marlow, Bucks.
2015 The Junction Gallery, Woodstock, OXON
2014 By Gillian Gallery, Bourne End, Bucks
2014 Bucks Open Studios at Commercial Square Studios , High Wycombe, Bucks
2014 Upstairs Gallery Berkhamstead, Herts
2014 Commercial Square Studios Pop Up Gallery, Marlow, Bucks
2013 Obsidian Art gallery, Aylesbury, Bucks
2013 Bucks Open Studios at Commercial Square Studios, High Wycombe, Bucks
2013 Wooburn Festival Visual Arts Show, Wooburn, Bucks
2013 Phoenix Studio Show, Towersey, Oxon
2012 Junction Art Gallery, Woodstock, Oxon
2012 Wooburn Festival Visual Arts Show, Wooburn, Bucks
2012 Obsidian Art Gallery, Aylesbury, Bucks
2011 Wooburn Festival Visual Arts Exhibition, Wooburn, Bucks
2011 Rudolf Steiner Contemporary Art Fair, Kings Langley, Herts
2011 Bucks Open Studios at Commercial Square Studios, High Wycombe, Bucks
2011 Women on Fire Exhibition, Central Hall, Westminster, London
2011 'Book That Space', Altered Books Exhibition, Aylesbury County Museum, Bucks
2010 Off the Wall Exhibition, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks
2010 The Chiltern Landscape Exhibition - Obsidian Gallery, Bucks
2010 The Gilded Egg - Egg Tempera Painters Exhibition at Bleddfa, Wales
2010 Bucks Open Studios at Commercial Square Studios, High Wycombe, Bucks
2010 Art on the Square, Leominster, Herefordshire
2010 Wooburn Festival Visual Arts Exhibition, Wooburn, Bucks
2010 Solo Show at Inspires Art Gallery, Oxford, Oxon
2010 Solo Show at Obsidian Gallery, Aylesbury, Bucks
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