I have enjoyed art from a very young age, drawing and painting pictures for Tony Hart’s gallery and illustrating short stories I wrote as a child. This interest began to transform itself into a realisation when I began my A-level art. I began to find inspiration from certain artistic movements and started to experiment with my work. My main interest was the Impressionists. I became fascinated by the colour, texture and imagery they used at the time. After passing my A-level art, and receiving a lot of encouragement from my art teacher, I went to Mansfield Art College to do my foundation course before university. It was here I studied more diverse areas of the art world and experimented in more modern methods. Still, there was always an underlying theme to my work, The Impressionists.
After passing my foundation course, I didn’t feel ready for university and opened up my own business, specialising in ceramics. I did a number of commissioned landscape paintings while I had my business although they were very traditional compared to my work now. As my business progressed, I felt my work was becoming more commercialised and I was losing my individuality. It came to the point where art held no appeal to me anymore, so I sold the business and decided to concentrate on my other love, music. Through my time at Music College and then university, I never stopped painting and found myself having a renewed love for it.
Six years on, after the birth of my daughter, I decided to pick up the paint brush again and I began painting. My work these days has a slightly different theme to it, as I don’t use black or white in any of my paintings. It is just pure colour that creates the light, shade and depth in my work. I feel this gives my landscape paintings a vibrancy you don’t always get the chance to see in nature.
After passing my foundation course, I didn’t feel ready for university and opened up my own business, specialising in ceramics. I did a number of commissioned landscape paintings while I had my business although they were very traditional compared to my work now. As my business progressed, I felt my work was becoming more commercialised and I was losing my individuality. It came to the point where art held no appeal to me anymore, so I sold the business and decided to concentrate on my other love, music. Through my time at Music College and then university, I never stopped painting and found myself having a renewed love for it.
Six years on, after the birth of my daughter, I decided to pick up the paint brush again and I began painting. My work these days has a slightly different theme to it, as I don’t use black or white in any of my paintings. It is just pure colour that creates the light, shade and depth in my work. I feel this gives my landscape paintings a vibrancy you don’t always get the chance to see in nature.
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