I am a multidisciplinary artist specialising in painting, moving image, digital art, music, and writing, interpreting memories, observations and emotions. I specialise in creating immersive works that don’t just focus on the experience of a moment and how it felt, but I explore the enduring psychological impact and the emotional residue that remains. • After graduating from Liverpool and Nottingham Art Colleges, I spent 20 years as a full-time freelance artist with solo exhibitions at prestigious venues like The Barbican Centre, The Mermaid Theatre, London, The Royal Exchange, Manchester and The Royal Philharmonic, Liverpool. • With the advent of digital technology, I co-founded a design company and collaborated with major brands like Adobe, Red or Dead, Motionhouse Dance, EMI and MUTE Records. • In my digital moving image work, I create multi-dimensional filmic universes by taking reality and then turning it into something completely different. The videos and moving image pieces have been screened at international festivals, including New York, Paris, Berlin and Zurich, as well as in special events at major institutions like Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York. • I returned to oil painting in 2019, drawing inspiration from my art school roots for series such as “The Apollo 11 Launch” and “Interactions”. • Since moving to the Isle of Wight in 2007, I have also focused heavily on the natural world with videos of the sea and shoreline and particularly the documentation of wild-living foxes in my "Fox Tales” books, paintings and video stories on my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@FoxTales-PW • I also curate and present innovative short film events on the island and am an active representative of the Open Studios community.
I am a multidisciplinary artist specialising in painting, moving image, digital art, music, and writing, interpreting memories, observations and emotions. I specialise in creating immersive works that don’t just focus on the experience of a moment and how it felt, but I explore the enduring psychological impact and the emotional residue that remains. • After graduating from Liverpool and Nottingham Art Colleges, I spent 20 years as a full-time freelance artist with solo exhibitions at prestigious venues like The Barbican Centre, The Mermaid Theatre, London, The Royal Exchange, Manchester and The Royal Philharmonic, Liverpool. • With the advent of digital technology, I co-founded a design company and collaborated with major brands like Adobe, Red or Dead, Motionhouse Dance, EMI and MUTE Records. • In my digital moving image work, I create multi-dimensional filmic universes by taking reality and then turning it into something completely different. The videos and moving image pieces have been screened at international festivals, including New York, Paris, Berlin and Zurich, as well as in special events at major institutions like Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York. • I returned to oil painting in 2019, drawing inspiration from my art school roots for series such as “The Apollo 11 Launch” and “Interactions”. • Since moving to the Isle of Wight in 2007, I have also focused heavily on the natural world with videos of the sea and shoreline and particularly the documentation of wild-living foxes in my "Fox Tales” books, paintings and video stories on my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@FoxTales-PW • I also curate and present innovative short film events on the island and am an active representative of the Open Studios community.
I agree that accident is, as you put it so well, "our studio assistant".
Since I found out about Aphantasia I have discovered that there are three other artists living not more than 10 minutes walk from me who have it too! One who can't see anything in her mind's eye and one who can see feint images.
I painted abstractions for a while too. They were based on the colours and shapes we can see when our eyes are closed. I found it liberating because the paintings didn't depend on me having a mind's eye vision. At the time I had no idea about Aphantasia, but now I do I enjoy the irony of basing a series of paintings on colours and shapes visible when my eyes are closed!
I agree that accident is, as you put it so well, "our studio assistant".
Since I found out about Aphantasia I have discovered that there are three other artists living not more than 10 minutes walk from me who have it too! One who can't see anything in her mind's eye and one who can see feint images.
I painted abstractions for a while too. They were based on the colours and shapes we can see when our eyes are closed. I found it liberating because the paintings didn't depend on me having a mind's eye vision. At the time I had no idea about Aphantasia, but now I do I enjoy the irony of basing a series of paintings on colours and shapes visible when my eyes are closed!