About

I like to work from real life but always add some new element, enjoying adding things that don't quite fit. I love to travel to make sketches in situ, hence the name Escapades.

 

My favourite subjects are fishing boats, lighthouses  - man made objects not just nature alone.

Inspired by French expressionist painter Soutine, I feel that the materials that I use in creating my works are less important than the creation of the effect I am searching for. I explore different techniques : oil, acrylic,collage ,charcoal and pastel guided by spontaneity, play , imagination and emotion.

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During nearly twenty years in Pontivy a Napoleonic town in the middle of Brittany I made a series of works called "Pontivy sans fin" inspired  by  a book by Giacometti called " Paris sans fin" This led to an exhibition in autumn 2018.

 

I have exhibited over a period of 30 years in London and in France. Works have been bought by buyers in England, America, Australia, France and Ireland.

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