I am a London-based artist who works in a variety of media, including oils, acrylic, pastel and collage.
I generally start from the subject, painting and drawing directly from the life: often landscape, sometimes portraits or familiar objects in still lives. But abstract and illustrative pieces tend to evolve alongside the observational ones in the studio later on. I like working both from life and my imagination - there's no conflict for me, it's all part of the same creative process.
I have spent several seasons painting and working at Centro D'Arte Verrocchio, an art school in Tuscany set up by the sculptor Nigel Konstam. I am interested in capturing the atmosphere and energy of Italy in my work and exploring how colour palettes create mood in landscape painting, and how that changes according to the time of day or season.