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Soft pastel
28 x 28 cm
2023
My work is unashamedly representational. I keep my eyes wide open to the endless complexity of colour and light and shine them into people's lives.
I use soft pastels for the primal feeling of applying pigment with my fingers directly onto a surface. I also like surprising people's concept of pastels (mostly they've only seen them being used for courtroom depictions of villains).
I'm largely self-taught, and have been drawing and painting for 10 years. My favourite subjects are flowers, urban life, portraits and mountains.
I have lived and worked in Birmingham for 40 years: my professional and academic life was in science and technology so my artistic voice struggles against seeing the world as data to be explained factually and rationally, but it never shuts up and has to be served, and I'm enjoying seeing the world with fresh eyes.
Soft pastel
28 x 28 cm
2023
My work is unashamedly representational. I keep my eyes wide open to the endless complexity of colour and light and shine them into people's lives.
I use soft pastels for the primal feeling of applying pigment with my fingers directly onto a surface. I also like surprising people's concept of pastels (mostly they've only seen them being used for courtroom depictions of villains).
I'm largely self-taught, and have been drawing and painting for 10 years. My favourite subjects are flowers, urban life, portraits and mountains.
I have lived and worked in Birmingham for 40 years: my professional and academic life was in science and technology so my artistic voice struggles against seeing the world as data to be explained factually and rationally, but it never shuts up and has to be served, and I'm enjoying seeing the world with fresh eyes.