Collograph Prints

`Tidal Fragments`

Exhibition at Pontardawe Arts Centre August 4th - 27th 2010

Surface texture is informed by boat hulls scarred and journey weary, worn layers of paint, revealing worn layers of paint..

These quiet contemplative paintings are my response to the ocean..that huge blue pool offers escape, solitude, peace..

Symbolic shapes translated into a glass panel for an internal door.

These circles,curves and squares allude to the cycle of life, the curves carved by the sea on the shore.Squares relate to the small boxes we sometimes think within or try to escape from,and sail shapes to boats in which we can leave the shore and expand our horizons...

Drawing. I love its directness. Its immediacy. It provides the opportunity to realise on paper that which excites me... it is a constant challenge.. a struggle.

One of my earliest memories is of the pure joy derived from a cheap drawing book. Carefree and uninhibited I would scribble, scrawl, make lines, fill in, shade and smudge.. I was aware of a great sense of pleasure and release in this free expression.

Painter/Printmaker/Designer presently based in South Wales UK.
co-Founder of Swansea Print Workshop (http://www.swanseaprintworkshop.co.uk)/
Community artist/educator/tutor.

Exhibitions (solo/group)

2007 `Figure 20`New Greenham Arts Berkshire

2006 `Works On Paper` Pontardawe Arts Centre Wales

2004 `Telling Tales` Neville Gallery Llanelli Wales

2003 `Especially when the october wind` http://www.dylanthomasprints.com/

Touring exhibition.Wales/UK Brussels and New York

2003 Attic Gallery Swansea Wales

2003 `Beautiful Women` Pontardawe Arts Centre Wales

2003 Chalk House Gallery St Ives Cornwall