Hi, and thank you for taking the time to check out my work.  I am an expressionist artist who has been living and working in Switzerland since 2007 and now I find myself living in Holzhäusern ZG. Originally I am from the Northwest of England, where we are more known for our dairy farms and rolling fields, with only the Welsh mountains in the distance and huge immense dramatic skies.

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Despite my fear of heights, the principal subjects of my work are large and expressionistic representations of Swiss mountains and landscapes. I trace my influence on art to my late father, who fell in love with Switzerland on a school trip to Luzern from England in the mid-1950s and who became a painter at the end of his short life, sadly he died when I was very young, but his love of capturing the landscape has been passed down to me, I never remember a time when I didn't paint or create. My work is inspired by my own sketches, photographs, and impressions which I collect from my adventures and travels. I work almost every day on my paintings, collages, and designs. Normally I  work on several paintings at once to pursue different ideas and expressions of a captured moment and mood. The main influences on my work are the landscapes of Swiss Artist Ferdinand Hodler and German Expressionist Artists such as Kirchner and Beckmann and of course the English landscape painters Turner and Constable. These along with the stories by Heinrich Harrer (The White Spider) have molded my creativity and I try to portray the Swiss Alps in my own unique style. 

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I studied art all my life, from a small child and through school my love was for Art, and after A levels, etc I completed my degree in  Visual Art  BA(Hons) at DeMontfort University, UK.  I exhibit my work regularly in Switzerland and in 2016 as well as in 2021 I was selected for the prestigious juried, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.