Abstract Paintings: Inscape
The Inscape series (2015 onwards) developed out of visits to East Anglia, drawing upon memories harking back to childhood and living with vast skies and horizon lines in a flat landscape. An exploration of both the inner and outer landscape, this series explores fictionalised memories and wistful nostalgia to create calm, meditative, abstract landscape paintings with horizon line.
October. 120 x 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas. 2019. £1850
This painting was inspired by walking in the Breckland forests with my folks. We were all taking photos of the trees. There are tons of pine trees in the area but also many trees turning gold, russet and red that inspired the colours of this painting.
Green Earth III 80 x 80cm oil on canvas £1600
Inspired by a visit to the Fens - a flat landscape that is on the doorstep of the village I grew up in. There are vast empty fields, with light shining in the puddles, and huge horizons.
Zen Landscape 80 x 60cm oil on canvas £1200
I was trying to make a landscape in as simple was as possible. Based on the Fens and with a symbolic landscape palette. This painting is textural, simple and very Zen - just the essence, that's enough.
Heath 50 x 50cm. Acrylic on canvas £795.
This is inspired by a field on the South Downs near to where I live. A small cluster of trees surrounded by the bright yellow rape crops.
Fen 76x102cm. Acrylic on canvas. £1600
One of the first of this series. Fen is my interpretation of how it feels to me sometimes to be in the Fens. Surrounded by huge ditches either side of the road, black earth fields and big big skies.
Ancestral Land 40 x 102 cm. Oil on canvas £1250.
My family come from East Anglia, going back as far as I can trace them - early 1700s they were all based within a few miles from each other in the flatlands where the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire meet. They worked on farms and stayed local. This information has inspired this and later series of work about the land and ancestry.
Afterglow 80 x 80cm acrylic on canvas SOLD. Contrails, chemtrails, those lines in the sky were ever present in the sky when I was a kid - there is a military airbase on the doorstep of the village I grew up in. This is inspired by the marks the jets left in the sky as they roared overhead.
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Peat. Acrylic on canvas 152 x 101cm SOLD
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Plain. Acrylic on canvas 120 x 90cm SOLD
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Peat II, acrylic on canvas, SOLD
Green Earth II 40 x 102cm oil.
SOLD
Marshland. Oil & acrylic on canvas 43 x 103cm. SOLD
