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JLC Gallery - Reading
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Holm Park - Reading
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Windsor International Art Show- Windsor
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The Art Cell - Spain
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La Fina Linea - Spain
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Catalonia International Art Show - Spain
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The figure and its architectural surroundings are parred back to their basic building blocks, simplified and abstracted to produce a contemporary evaluation of the figure as a collection of geometric shapes and planes with graphic over-tones. This challenging and contemporary outlook on the human condition, stripped bare of the flesh like armour, and its interaction with architectural form, becomes a series of geometric shapes and organic forms. In breaking the painting down into compartmentalised units of colour, stripped of all extraneous detail, the figure is rendered in pure codified information. It doesn't offer a representation of reality, rather, a universally recognisable idea of it. Perspective is delineated through overlapping layers and scale, while the fresh, graphic simplicity with which such an overwhelming concept is inferred, allows the painting to revel in illusion over representation. A kaleidoscopic distortion of colour and sophistication of design imbue the composition with functionality, organic forms and sharp angles smack of high design, achieved through deconstructing the original image into abstracted components in a kind of twenty-first century cubism that references an inkling of abstraction while allowing the viewer only fragmented suggestions of a space that seems both mechanical and biotic. This new found direction has seen me show at Parallax AF in London and invites to show in New York and at several of the Affordable Art Fairs as well as the Grand Design Show at Excel. I am also represented by Artbridge, the sister company to the Hay Hill Gallery in Cork Street. I am regularly invited to spend time at a local school as an artist in residence, where I combine my knowledge of creative advertising and fine art to help inspire the pupils and offer some degree of career guidance and technical mentoring, as such I am proud to say I have now been the subject of 3 A level thesis and one degree thesis. Having qualifications in design, photography and advertising allows me the privilege of offering advice on a variety of for career paths for students to follow.
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