Since 2000 I have been a self employed artist specialising in painting Arab horses, animals, landscapes and portraits. The horses are painted for my own pleasure and are sold through local galleries, businesses and exhibitions and the portraits are painted on a commission basis. I am currently engaged in producing high quality fine art prints of some of my favourite paintings which distributed through real world and internet Galleries as well as other appropriate venues.
I also teach art both privately and for Central Sussex College which I find helps to keep my own skills evolving as I work out new and interesting ways to help other people to draw and paint competently.
I have, on occasion, painted murals and have examples in several restaurants, rooms in private houses, and even in a stud farm.
My inspirations are animals - particularly the Arabian horse which I find absolutely beautiful. I don’t paint like other wildlife artists as I my motivation lies more in capturing the spirit of an animal rather than the photographic duplication of it (though I can do this extremely well if I wish to). Consequently, my paintings are very vibrant and have a definite presence (I have one in my living room of two Arabian colts and I suspect they sometimes move around when I’m not watching).
I don’t paint with any complicated significances or pretend to be deep – I just love painting.
Exhibitions: I have had exhibitions at Chequer Mead, Wealden House, Old Convent South of England show, Saint Hill Castle (all East Grinstead), Chelsea Open Exhibition, the Mall galleries in Whitehall, the Arabesque Gallery in Bahrain, Obsidian Gallery in Bucks, Iona Gallery in Woodstock, the Hawth Theatre, Crawley and the Brighton Festival 2007.
I currently have paintings in a semi-permanent display at the Chequers Inn Banquet Hall, Forest Row, Priors Equine Vets, Forest Row, Art Gekko, East Grinstead and Object d’art, East Grinstead.
