About
I grew up in a family of painters, and have been drawing since I was two. We travelled a lot, especially in countries around the Mediterranean, so that’s my painterly home, though I’ve lived in England for the last couple of decades, with occasional escapades to southern France and Italy to recharge the batteries.
Aside from the occasional political poster my work has no intent, is not deliberately about anything. Art, though it can make a statement, is for me a refuge from words. As much as possible textures, tones, gestures, colours, and light are what I deal in.
I’m a materials person, and enjoy researching mediums and pigments, and grinding my own paints, especially oils, which are my primary interest. The physical handling of oil paint, with palette knife, brush, fingers, and fabric, seems to offer almost endless possibilities.