“In my work, photography and painting combine - I paint with photographs. The great out doors of British Columbia - both urban and rural - draws me in to record it with my camera. To leave it at that would be too literal - I rework the images drawing on my expertise as a painter, to create visually stunning and unusual images.�
What has inspired my art? One word suffices – NATURE
The England of my childhood is still a part of me – its fabulous gardens, lush greenery and rolling pastures. Now I live in Vancouver, immersed in a different kind of nature. Vancouver’s verdant rainforests, exotic, colorful gardens and mystical seascapes have together with my English inheritance, blossomed my passion for flora, fauna and landscape.
For many years I have worked with botanical imagery, using a formal, realistic format. More recently, thanks to my exploration of new mediums and new ways of visual expression, my work has developed in a different direction. My focus now is to recreate the spirit of the natural environment – its movement, energy and direction. This is achieved through use of multiple layers of imagery and color. The resulting three-dimensional effect is, in my opinion, unique and exciting.
My working methods echo the cyclical nature of “The Seasons�. Images are deconstructed and rearranged, much as flowers wither and die only to bloom again. Nature in its teeming insistence on being. I seek to create a surface that is full of vitality, movement, color and light.
