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Welcome to my website
I am a
full time artist originally from the U.K. I moved out to Spain a few
years ago to escape the well known English weather. For many years I
have worked in the field of Chinoiserie furniture decoration (furniture
decorated in the Chinese manner) restoration of antique lacquer and
Indian paintings. In more recent years I have been concentrating on
fine art compositions on panels using a combination of oil and egg tempera.
Tempera - when combined with oils - is a wonderful and durable paint
medium, and through exhaustive studio experimentation I have found it
to be the most versatile and enjoyable of mediums. I am very much of
the school of thought as was Tom Keating that most of the old masters
(including many 19th century masters) used egg tempera/oil emulsions
for
much of their paintings rather than straight oil on its own. The
effects one can achieve using tempera and oil are superior to to those
achieved using an oil medium only.
The color
pigments which I buy from L. Cornelissen in London are of the finest
grade and completely light-fast/ permanent: They will not fade. My
works are mostly landscapes, botanical studies, portraits and still
life compositions.
In many of my paintings I use a fairly bold quivering line that reminds
us of the works of Van Gogh although my technique is fundamentally
different to his.
I hope you enjoy the pages of this
website and please feel free to contact me should you have any
inquiries.
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"why
is the modern day artist always required to explain everything about
his work? Certainly a work of art involving several old car tyres
strung to a ceiling with mouldy baked bean cans attached would require
some sort of explanation. But since when did aesthetics take a back
seat in
painting, good old fashioned beauty, Many of todays modern 'art works'
will surely one day be returned from whence they came; namely, the
scrap heap" - Mark Drake-Briscoe
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