Light, water, mist and dew are my tutors - my landscapes being merely a response to nature.
The non-figurative paintings are singular in concept and technique and reflect my interest in ideas.

Juvenilia apart, my work falls naturally into three periods.

Apprenticeship decade - the Epping Forest & the Roding Valley canvases

Locations deep in the forest, dawn and the early morning light, misty November days and the elms by the Roding at Curtis Mill Green in Essex impelled the early canvases. These open-air locations made me a painter while I was simultaneously receiving a comprehensive studio training in oil and watercolour technique. The first Chelsea exhibitions, The Paris Salon, an illustrated article in La Revue Moderne, publication by The Medici Society and participation in innumerable minor mixed exhibitions followed. Other media included The Re-awakening - an audio-visual preformance combining music with photographic images to evoke the arrival of spring in the forest. Crescendo (dawn) and Diminuendo (autumn) were in production. The first non-figurative paintings included Progression, Linear No. 1, Humanity 1, 2, and 3, Broken Linear No. 1, Rooks on the Wind and another triptych El hijo y el sol, La Via and La Luz. The Gallery at present, includes just one landscape from this period - May Morning (reference 50).

Dorset - the first four decades:

A corpus of work well represented in the Gallery

Light & Water - the fifth decade

New work in progress (see Feature page). These are small, collectable, simple - watercolours on deckle-edged handmade paper. The oils are on Dorset-oak panels of specific provenance.

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