Artist profile
I have had the enviable task over the past ten years or so in travelling around Europe the USA and the Far East producing bodies of art for exhibitions, travel brochures and tourist boards.
I tend to just wander about "finding" paintings. I'm not attracted to the grand or majestic, rarely a cathedral or city icon but the small details and corners that give a place its culture and identity. Pieces of architecture, a glimpse through a cafe window, people chatting on the beach, in fact any scene that can tell a story.
I was lucky enough to fulfil a childhood dream and own a house and studio in Normandy near Monet's house where I spent nine happy years studying the Impressionists. The journey took me (and them) to further study with the ways of the Orient and became infuenced with Japanese art and culture.
I can only find my subjects if I interact with the locals spending my time amongst their lives and cultures which has led to hundreds of paintings and stories to tell over my career. I've stayed in mud huts in Africa, log cabins and wigwams in America and helped out in a voodoo shop in a slave market in the Kasbah. Luckily artists are accepted all over the world although I did have to take a special licence to drive boats in Venice. Since the covid lockdown I've spent more time painting in the UK and am only now taking on new work abroad and looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.
THE ORIGINALS
Most of my final studio paintings are produced after many sketches, trials and reworking studies. The original idea comes usually from wandering around, chatting and watching, waiting for that must paint moment or a story to be told. Artists are always asked "How long did it take you to paint that?" sometimes many hours of work before you even pick up a brush. I paint mainly in series that can be used commercially either for illustration, design or to be made into prints or greeting cards, the bonus of this is the patron just wants to license the copyright for a few years which enables me to sell the original either from a gallery or directly from a studio visit. Most private buyers don't mind seeing their image appearing on the high street as it usually adds value to their original. Finished work is usually acrylic on board as the medium suits my style of painting, drying before I have to transport it home. Studies however can be pencil, ink, paint, coffee or anything that comes to hand.
I usually try to make finished work to standard sizes to allow for off the shelf framing giving a buyer a chance to try two or three options before making a decision.
Post and Packing
Will be of the lowest available cost insured to the value of the contents.
Trade prices
Trade buyers and galleries can command a discount of up to fifty percent when buying a minimum of ten images.