If we are to attempt to reconnect with the environments that surround us, we need to re-evaluate our relationships with the world: be accepting of change, relinquish power and willingly step into uncertainty. We need to fall in love.
My art practice is intrinsically entwined with my exploration of the Somerset landscape; it’s the result of the intense observation of colour, light and space. Through my constant gazing, wandering and contemplating, I’m driven to capture the intimacy between me and my surroundings. It’s about processing my experience of the environments around me and considering my relationship with the world.
Through my work I examine contradictions, as methods of finding connections, during times of change. Moments of meeting where; emotions meet senses, light meets dark, soft meets sharp, dynamic meets constant, past meets future. It’s about welcoming the complexities of opposites and finding resolve in the dynamism of human experience.
CURRENT/ UPCOMING:
EXHIBITIONS
2024 FOUND & GROUND - 10 January - 2 April, The Musgrove Gallery, Queens Building, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset
TALKS
2024 RURAL SPACE - Thursday 20 June - 7:30pm, Wiveliscombe Civic and Historical Society, Wiveliscombe Community Centre, Wiveliscombe, TA4 2JP
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Death & Microwaves, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2023 ACEARTS OPEN 23, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2023 Behind the Scenes, The Brewhouse, Taunton, Somerset
2023 Works in Progress, People's Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol, Somerset
2023 Open Studios, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 OUT OF THE BOX, Studio 10 Project Space, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 INBETWEEN, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 Reflections & Shadows, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2023 Ilminster Art Centre Winners Exhibition, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 SANCTUARY, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 It's About Time, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2022 OUTSIDE IN, Shepton Mallet Prison, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
2022 SANCTUARY, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2022 STOP, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 Ilminster Open Exhibition, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 EVOLVER Prize, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 ACEARTS OPEN 22, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 BLUE, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2022 Mind, Kingshill House, Dursley, Gloucestershire
2022 The Whittox Gallery’s Retrospective, The Whittox Gallery, Frome, Somerset
2021 Studio 8, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2021 Fresh Start, Muswell Hill Gallery, London
2021 HATCH@SomARTton, SomARTton Gallery, Somerton, Somerset
2021 Smaller than a Melon, the STABLE gallery, West Meon, Hampshire
2021 HATCH21, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2018 Unnamed 3, The Rainbow Room, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
2018 Relational Form, Somerset Art Weeks, Contains Art, Somerset
2018 Fragmental, Whittox Gallery, Frome, Somerset
2018 Sending Love Postcard Project, Jester House Cafe, Tasman, Nelson, New Zealand
2018 Unnamed 2, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 Explore, Inspect, Excavate, Somerset Art Weeks, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 The Time Machine, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 Gallery4Art Summer Exhibition, Halsway Manor, Somerset
2017 GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY, Bruton Art Factory, Bruton, Somerset
2017 The Observatory: Perspectives on Landscape, Society and Spirit, Exeter University, Devon
2017 Luftschlösser (Castles in the Air), Scholss Lekow, Lekow, Poland
2017 The Tempest, Regal Theatre, Minehead, Somerset
2017 Unnamed, Contains Art, Somerset
2016 Cold Kisses II – In the Brut Midwinter, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset
2016 Stogursey Arts Festival, Stogursey, Somerset
2016 The Way We See It , Contains Art, Somerset
2016 Gallery4Art Summer Exhibition, Halsway Manor, Somerset
2016 The Tempest, Contains Art, Somerset
2016 ellipse, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
2016 ellipse, Galerie Remise, Berlin
2015 The Windows are Illuminated, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2014 Reading the World from Right to Left, Dulverton, Somerset
2014 5% of your perception is limited to the edges in any given room, 5% Studios, High Wycombe
2014 Reddotshow, Buckinghamshire New University Degree Show. High Wycombe
2014 A4 Exchange, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
2013 Discovering Collage, Dulverton, Somerset
2013 Delineation, Bucks New University, High Wycombe
2012 Arkadia Fine Art Gallery, Dunster, Somerset
2012 Solo Exhibition, Dulverton, Somerset
TALKS
2023 LOVE, DEATH & ELBOWROOM Hatch Somerset, Langport, Somerset
2023 Living with Paint, East Quay Kitchen, Watchet, Somerset
RESIDENCIES
2017 DIYIOS Residency, Isle of Skye, Scotland
2015 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
2014 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
2013 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
AWARDS
2022 Ilminster Open Exhibition Highly Commended
2017 CICCIC Contemporary Art Open 2017 Second Prize
2014 BARTS Society Award Awarded by Bucks New University
EDUCATION
2011 - 2014 BA Fine Art (Hons) - First Class, Buckinghamshire New University
My art practice is intrinsically entwined with my exploration of the Somerset landscape; it’s the result of the intense observation of colour, light and space. Through my constant gazing, wandering and contemplating, I’m driven to capture the intimacy between me and my surroundings. It’s about processing my experience of the environments around me and considering my relationship with the world.
Through my work I examine contradictions, as methods of finding connections, during times of change. Moments of meeting where; emotions meet senses, light meets dark, soft meets sharp, dynamic meets constant, past meets future. It’s about welcoming the complexities of opposites and finding resolve in the dynamism of human experience.
CURRENT/ UPCOMING:
EXHIBITIONS
2024 FOUND & GROUND - 10 January - 2 April, The Musgrove Gallery, Queens Building, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset
TALKS
2024 RURAL SPACE - Thursday 20 June - 7:30pm, Wiveliscombe Civic and Historical Society, Wiveliscombe Community Centre, Wiveliscombe, TA4 2JP
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Death & Microwaves, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2023 ACEARTS OPEN 23, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2023 Behind the Scenes, The Brewhouse, Taunton, Somerset
2023 Works in Progress, People's Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol, Somerset
2023 Open Studios, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 OUT OF THE BOX, Studio 10 Project Space, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 INBETWEEN, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2023 Reflections & Shadows, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2023 Ilminster Art Centre Winners Exhibition, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 SANCTUARY, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 It's About Time, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2022 OUTSIDE IN, Shepton Mallet Prison, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
2022 SANCTUARY, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2022 STOP, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 Ilminster Open Exhibition, Ilminster Arts Centre, The Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
2022 EVOLVER Prize, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 ACEARTS OPEN 22, ACEARTS, Somerton, Somerset
2022 BLUE, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2022 Mind, Kingshill House, Dursley, Gloucestershire
2022 The Whittox Gallery’s Retrospective, The Whittox Gallery, Frome, Somerset
2021 Studio 8, Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
2021 Fresh Start, Muswell Hill Gallery, London
2021 HATCH@SomARTton, SomARTton Gallery, Somerton, Somerset
2021 Smaller than a Melon, the STABLE gallery, West Meon, Hampshire
2021 HATCH21, Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2018 Unnamed 3, The Rainbow Room, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
2018 Relational Form, Somerset Art Weeks, Contains Art, Somerset
2018 Fragmental, Whittox Gallery, Frome, Somerset
2018 Sending Love Postcard Project, Jester House Cafe, Tasman, Nelson, New Zealand
2018 Unnamed 2, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 Explore, Inspect, Excavate, Somerset Art Weeks, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 The Time Machine, Contains Art, Somerset
2017 Gallery4Art Summer Exhibition, Halsway Manor, Somerset
2017 GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY, Bruton Art Factory, Bruton, Somerset
2017 The Observatory: Perspectives on Landscape, Society and Spirit, Exeter University, Devon
2017 Luftschlösser (Castles in the Air), Scholss Lekow, Lekow, Poland
2017 The Tempest, Regal Theatre, Minehead, Somerset
2017 Unnamed, Contains Art, Somerset
2016 Cold Kisses II – In the Brut Midwinter, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset
2016 Stogursey Arts Festival, Stogursey, Somerset
2016 The Way We See It , Contains Art, Somerset
2016 Gallery4Art Summer Exhibition, Halsway Manor, Somerset
2016 The Tempest, Contains Art, Somerset
2016 ellipse, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
2016 ellipse, Galerie Remise, Berlin
2015 The Windows are Illuminated, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2014 Reading the World from Right to Left, Dulverton, Somerset
2014 5% of your perception is limited to the edges in any given room, 5% Studios, High Wycombe
2014 Reddotshow, Buckinghamshire New University Degree Show. High Wycombe
2014 A4 Exchange, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe
2013 Discovering Collage, Dulverton, Somerset
2013 Delineation, Bucks New University, High Wycombe
2012 Arkadia Fine Art Gallery, Dunster, Somerset
2012 Solo Exhibition, Dulverton, Somerset
TALKS
2023 LOVE, DEATH & ELBOWROOM Hatch Somerset, Langport, Somerset
2023 Living with Paint, East Quay Kitchen, Watchet, Somerset
RESIDENCIES
2017 DIYIOS Residency, Isle of Skye, Scotland
2015 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
2014 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
2013 JOYA: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain
AWARDS
2022 Ilminster Open Exhibition Highly Commended
2017 CICCIC Contemporary Art Open 2017 Second Prize
2014 BARTS Society Award Awarded by Bucks New University
EDUCATION
2011 - 2014 BA Fine Art (Hons) - First Class, Buckinghamshire New University