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Painter
I’m a painter, originally from England. I have lived in Okere Falls in New Zealand for the past 20 years and paint from a studio at home.
My work is deeply connected to my love of food. For me food and art are so intricately linked, in their processes, shared pleasure and transformation. Mostly I approach my work having been inspired by a cooking experience. I love the sensory pleasure of preparing ingredients and of applying paint. I see colour like flavour and I’m forever searching for the perfect balance. There are so many flavour or colour combinations. Some familiar, some unexpected. Each making us feel a certain way, uplifted or comforted and everything in between.
In moving forward I’d like to do more collaborations with chef’s, sharing the joy and similarities of cooking and painting. There is magic in that transformation. Whether that’s fresh ingredients into a meal to be shared or the transformation of tubes of paint and a canvas into to a painting that may cause an emotional response.
My process is a playful search for beauty. I always know when a painting is finished; it’s ready to eat with the eyes. A visual feast if you will.