Winter’s Refuge, Todmorden

Oil on linen
65cm x 65cm

I am a Cumbrian based figurative and landscape painter working in Oils and waterbased media.

I work solely from life; figurative paintings are the result of a significant amount of in-person sittings, an understanding of the person and not just the aesthetic, with a relationship forged over months of sittings, meetings and thus creation. Where such painstaking in-person paintings are not possible, studio painting is born of countless hours of drawings and smaller preparatory plein air studies produced as observer of and participant within the landscape to be depicted, in whole or in part. Impressions are forged at different vantage points, in different conditions and with varying emotional positions in order to bind together and inform the creation of the whole.

Influences include Dutch Masters, Northern European Renaissance Painters, British 20th Century figuration and the work of Andrew Wyeth, to name a few.