ABOUT ME

I started taking photographs when I first went traveling to foreign places at the age of 16. My first love was always the countryside, the colours and shapes of the landscape and the images that I can produce as a result of timing and chance as well as a little skill. All my photographs on display are taken within Dorset because I think I am so fortunate to live in such a fabulous part of England. In 2010 I cleverly managed to fall down the stairs at home. I was pretty immobile for 6 months before it decided to start healing and I started painting. That was the start of my dabble with oils. It was a little time before I explored the freedom of painting outside. Despite the extreme cold at times, I was exhilarated.

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I trained at Weymouth College and specialised in sculpture. Always keen to get my hands 'into stuff', I decided that it was still possible to produce landscapes of my favourite coastline and countryside but just in an unusual way. My method is to use drawings and photographs to start with and I am really keen to create a "relief" affect, drawing the landscape out of the frame. There is a lot of squinting at the image to catch the shadows and of course then there is the long cutting out process with a scalpel. I feel it is all worth it and I am thrilled with the results so far. I hope you will be too.

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AWARDS:: 

2024 - DACA -  Fine Art, Dorset Life, Landscape & Sea category - 3 entries and 3 awards: Highly Commended, Commended and Commended

2019 - The Greyhound Trophy for the best seascape picture - Bridport Art Society

2015 - Art student of the year - Weymouth College

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ACCEPTED TO SHOW IN THE FOLLOWING GALLERIES:

2024: Dorset Makers Gallery, Beach & Barnicott, Bridport

           Aspect Gallery, Dorchester

           Sherborne Open Art Exhibition

           Purbeck New Wave Gallery

           Helen Millard Cameo Gallery, Abbotsbury

           Sou Sou West Gallery, Symondsbury

           Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

           DACA (Dorset Art & Craft Association)

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2023: Gallery of Makers, Broadmayne

           The Shaftesbury Open Art Exhibition

           Sou Sou West Gallery, Symondsbury

           Burton Bradstock Festival of Music & Art 

           Sherborne Open Art Exhibition

           Art in Poundbury Christmas Exhibition

           Helen Millard Cameo Gallery, Abbotsbury

           Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

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2022 Sou Sou West Gallery, Symondsbury

          Helen Millard Cameo Gallery, Abbotsbury

          Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

​          Sherborne Open Art Exhibition

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2021 Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

          Helen Millard Cameo Gallery, Abbotsbury

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2020 Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

          Helen Millard Cameo Gallery, Abbotsbury

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2019  Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, near Bridport

           Whitestones Gallery, Portland

           Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre

           Bridport Art Society

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