Background Information

A professional painter since the mid 90's including awards for portraiture (see CV ).

Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art 2001 at Manchester Metropolitan University, has exhibited at various venues including:

• ARTFUTURES2002 with the Contemporary Art Society, London.
• ART2002 ART2003, Business Design Centre London.
• Art Take Away, Cornerhouse, Manchester,
• Manchester Art Gallery,
• Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London.
• September 2004 awarded the most outstanding entry from the North of England at the Discerning Eye.

"Recently I have just completed a series of portraits of the actress Alexandra Milman as she appeared in the Gothic Henry James play ‘Turn of the Screw’ performed at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre.

The portraits explore expressions of the human psyche, the self and the soul.

We learn to read faces at a very early age, we wonder what faces might tell us about others and what others might see in our face. People constantly send out social signals through facial expressions. How do we as human beings react and cope with everyday situations of daily life?

This psychological thriller was a great opportunity for me to investigate this subject.

I am actually finding so many parallels between the spaces where I get my inspiration from, such as the theatre and the service of the Mass. There are so many comparisons with religion and the theatre, both spaces are architecturally designed to make the congregation/audience feel awed or inspired, and both have stories to tell of life and death and human folly."