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I still pitch my work with Generally, influences can be found
painters. This is in part to my in sources including song lyrics,
Fine Art background but more curiosity cabinets, fashion
importantly that I feel that the magazines and folklore.
textile element of my work is One of my favourite places is the
not as crucial as the British Museum, I have spent many
composition/story of the hours sketching the Roman figurine
artwork. At the beginning of my relics and being fascinated by the
journey with this style of work Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings. I
the main aim with my owe a lot to the painting
creative process was to bridge technician we had at university,
the gap of what is deemed art he had taken out a book on the
and craft. What is seen as a subject of tomb art from our
feminine technique and library and ordered me to be the
giving the illusion of an image next borrower of the book! Of
which on first appearances looks course, I did and it just
painted. This is still important fascinated me, but it wasn’t until
in a pigeon-holed world but I am another eight years for the
now interested in pushing the imagery to truly affect my
boundaries (my technique and artwork. In the British Museum’s
materials) of this style. Egyptian burial section there was
One thing I like to do is go one piece hidden in a corner that
through old sketchbooks, ideas particularly caught my eye, a
from years ago that never came small tomb painting of a man which
to fruition may now strike a was so fragmented that you could
chord. From looking back at my barely make out the face. The idea
sketchbooks, the one thing that that you had to guess at filling
stands out is that I am still in the pieces to make up how the
being influenced/drawn to the face possibly looked appealed to
same subjects and imagery, but me, and in a sketchbook the
different combinations of these concept went, where it stayed for
elements have come together at years.
various times, keeping my More recently textural elements
artwork progressing. Over the have become a little obsession,
years my artwork has covered a progressing on from the abstract
range of subjects based upon fragments of historical imagery
everyday life, literature and
mythology.
Inspiration for my artwork comes
from a variety of places but
mainly have foundations from my
fine art painting roots, from
the meatiness of Lucien Freud,
the abstract passion of
Francis Bacon and the palette
knife style of Van Gogh.
Recently painters such as Jake
Wood Evans have helped keep my
passions and thoughts fresh and
progressive.
