Painter of Flowers and Country Life
"Keep your love of nature for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more"
Vincent Van Gogh
Welcome and thank you for visiting. Whether you're interested in joining me for a workshop or taking a look at my portfolio, here's a little about me ...
I'm a painter based in Hadleigh, Suffolk, who paints still-life, landscape and occasionally dogs by commission. Further to studying Art and the History of Art at A' Level and experimenting with pastel in the aftermath, I undertook an Oil Painting Diploma at the Norfolk Painting School, graduating in 2021. It was here that I studied the Old Masters in depth and found new ways to express myself in paint.
Teaching
I offer one-to-one and small group tuition at my studio in Hadleigh. If you'd like to come and paint some flowers with me or learn the basics of painting animals or still-life, please drop me a line ... and click here for Workshops.
Previous exhibitions:
Ipswich Art Society
Colchester Art Society
Institute of East Anglian Art, Holt, Norfolk
The Gallery Holt, Lees Yard, Holt, Norfolk
The Leaping Hare, Wyken, Near Bury St Edmunds
Heart of Suffolk, Thorpe Morieux
Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings
The Old Goods Shed, Clare
Grundisburgh House, Near Woodbridge
Upcoming exhibitions:
Inspired by Benton End - Hadleigh Old School - 11/12/13 April 2025
Kettlebaston Art Fair - 10/11 May 2025
Hadleigh Show - 17 May 2025
Suffolk Open Studios - 21/22 June 2025
Makers Gallery Holt - 1-7 October 2025
Inspired by Benton End 2025
In Autumn 2024 myself and seven other Suffolk artists began visiting the house and gardens of Benton End, Hadleigh - the place that was formerly the home of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines and known as the East Anglian School of painting and Drawing. Calling ourselves the 'Inspired by Benton End Artists', we were the first group of artists in forty years to be given independent access to the house to paint, research and collaborate - and our exhibition will take place at Hadleigh Old School on the 12th and 13th April 2025. Besides working from still-life arrangements in the old studio upstairs, we sketched, painted and exchanged ideas in and out of doors, as the gardeners reinvented the old flowerbeds around us. From paintings and ceramics, sketchbooks and nature journals, the public will have their first opportunity to experience the fruits of our observations and labours at the Private View on Friday 11th April at 7pm.
Since childhood, Cedric Morris' paintings have held a special place in my heart, loaded as they are with so many of nature's various idiosyncrasies and so alive with colour and lyricism. Benton End is now in the hands of the Garden Museum whose mission is to inspire artists and gardeners alike in the spirit of the original ethos of Morris and Lett. That spirit has already worked its magic on me. Now that spring is here, I can see Cedric in every bird, tree and flower as all creation starts to sing.
'He would start at the top of the canvas and work his way in rows to the bottom rather like knitting a pullover!"