I am creating narrative portraits and landscapes of people I know and places I visit regularly. They are moments in time that were captured in a single photograph; using acrylic and oil I recycle the photographs and create paintings. I have always loved how you can manipulate paint and an image to make it something different. I love textures within paint and I have always been interested in the relationship between painting and printmaking. I want to see how I can use my subject to explore techniques in print that can help develop my future paintings. In printmaking you can produce a variety of textures and effects. I am hoping to explore and transfer my painting techniques to printmaking as they complement one another; I hope to create a body of work that is unique to me.

PAST EXHIBITIONS 

 ‘UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL’ PORTRAIT EXHIBITION - HATTON GALLERY, NEWCASTLE 2006

 ‘FRIENDS OF HATTON’ RECENT WORKS - HATTON GALLERY, NEWCASTLE 2006

 ‘ARC’ - STOCKTON ON TEES 2007

 ‘BRANDED’ - PYTHON GALLERY, MIDDLESBROUGH 2008

 ‘EMPTY SHOP’ - DURHAM 2009

 ‘BOOK ART’ - MIDDLESBROUGH CENTRAL LIBRARY 2009

 ‘CAN YOU’ -  DEGREE SHOW TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY, MIDDLESBROUGH 2009

 ‘IMAGINARY PARLOUR’ - WE ARE OPEN MIDDLESBROUGH 2010

 ‘ARTWINS PROJECT’ - OBERHAUSEN, GERMANY 2010 

 'THE TEEN COMMANDMENTS' - NORTHERN STAGE, NEWCASTLE 2010

I AM CURRENTLY WORKING TOWARDS MY FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE   PYTHON GALLERY MIDDLESBEROUGH 2011