Painting in oils and beyond: Allow me to help you speak with the language of fine art

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I have been involved in art for twenty years. I started out painting and selling both oils and watercolours. This developed to become, for a while, the main source of our household income. I managed to have solo exhibitions in Devon and Kent in the UK, as well as USA, Japan and, when I lived in France, several there too. When I returned from France, I started my academic studies in Fine Art Sheffield Hallam and Leeds Arts University where I receive a BA and MA in fine art.

I have great interest in the theory of fine art, such as composition, perspective, colour theory; the technology of fine art in understanding materials used and techniques applied. The theories of doing that allow successful expression. As well as purely fine art theory, this allows me to bring in psychology and other scientific thought, not to usurp fine are theory, but to bolster it both to confirm existing theories as well as opening out possible avenues for discovering new ones.

In painting I see myself as impressionist but recently have moved more towards realism to better communicate with internet viewer. This is because, when a piece is photographed, people cannot see complexity of the brush strokes used. I like to paint genre where complicated compositions and intellectual work is involved but I also do portraits, still life and landscape. In sculpture I use mostly archaic composition, as exemplified by Henry Moore and Aristide Maillol.

I really enjoy sharing my love of art with other. I believe everybody can express themselves through art (and probably should) and I love being a catalyst to make that happen. I do not use restrictive instruction where I tell students what they must do, but help them develop themselves - help them to discover their own way while sharing helpful insights from my own practice and wide knowledge of fine art practice and theory.

Location

Online from United Kingdom

About Me

I am a highly driven person who can achieve goal in multiple circumstances and industries. Since coming to the UK, I have embarked on a new venture into academic studies with a view to mirroring my previous successes in that area. As a part of this, I received a first-class honours and master’s in fine art. My academic studies have been carried out to enable me to achieve my new goal working with people to allow them to express themselves with fine art. I take great delight and pride in mentoring people around seeing it as something a need to do almost as a part of my own practice.

Throughout of practice, I have used representational painting and drawing (even my abstract pieces are underpinned by a representational approach – in some way, is that not always the case?) and have been exhibited a number of times as I developed, from exhibitions in Devon and Kent where I showed both oils (generally painterly pieces) and, by contrast, Japanese inspired watercolours to an exhibition in Japan where I showed Japanese watercolour inspired oils as well as exhibitions when I lived in France that reflected the colours rather than the actuality of the country. I have developed towards researching the boarders between different disciplines, merging fine art with general art and theoretical bases that underpin all of these. In my MA thesis I looked at painting as sculpture and sculpture as painting. I researched fine art theorists such as Fontana, Vladimir Tatlin, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tangley, Kurt Schwitters, Lev Nusberg, Eric Bulatov, Timur Novikov, Irina Nakhova, Greenberg et al. The goal was to break down the borders of practices in order to build a practice that was able to use any practice in a harmonious way; to “dekonstuct” theories to allow a theory to emerge. This research has given me some tools that will help me in my future work, specifically, although I still make representational pieces, these are not confined to the flat painting; I have brought into my pieces sculptural and theatrical aspects as well as having done work to include temporal practices – I have moved, that is, to making installations that allow the non-pictorial to impinge and unite with the pictorial in an effort to the transgress, and yet keep, all modes of expression used.

Education

BTEC Art and Design, D* D* D*
Sheffield Hallam University, BA, Fine Art, First class honours
Leeds Arts University, MA, Fine Art

I have previous education in both human and vetinary medicine

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The class is taught in

English

Skills

Painting

Art

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New York

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