FESTIVAL

I live and work in the historic market town of Ringwood in the county of Hampshire in the UK. As an award winning artist I combine my passion for design with my love of beauty, colour and form to produce contemporary geometric abstract art using vibrant, gradated and tonal palettes. I enjoy working with different structural elements, such as squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals, stripes, and curves in various configurations and colour combinations to produce compositions based around movement, energy and fluidity. Each piece of work usually begins with some ideas on paper prior to setting on the final composition by digital means. I don’t really plan the colour side out too much at the beginning and let this element of the work develop naturally as the design progresses. I find this to be an instinctive process. Inspiration for my art comes from a varied range of sources including the work of contemporary artists of this and the last century; particularly of the Art Deco period as well as visual and organic sources within world around us. Having had a career as an engineering draughtsman my methodical and precise way of thinking can also influence the conception of some pieces. My work is constantly evolving as I continually explore the interrelations of colours, various shapes and different textures.  Although my art by definition is abstractive simplicity and sincerity is important to me but at the same time I like to evoke feelings of tension and repose, symmetry and asymmetry, dynamism and stasis to stimulate the viewer's imagination and present them with a multitude of dynamic visual sensations to provide a lasting memory of what has been viewed.