Artist Statement:
I came late to jewellery making and I am self taught. After spending most of the 60's till early 70's as a seaman in the Merchant Navy, I was determined, with the money I had saved, to paint. Visits to St Ives, Cornwell where artists like Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, Roger Hilton, Bob Law, Breon O'Casey and Bryan Illsley, have lived and influenced my thinking. Abstraction, with a leaning towards simplified figuration, where birds, boats and sea are not far away. In my work, jewellery methods are simple, scraps of gold or silver are melted and beaten out; stones are cut and ground.
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Feast, Avid, Wellington
2005 not all about fish, Avid, Wellington
2005 seasky, Lure, Dunedin
2004 At the Beach, Fingers, Auckland
2003 Migration, Avid, Wellington
2002 Flight, Gallery VC, Queenstown
2001 Leaving Wellington, Avid, Wellington
1999 Journeys, Form Gallery, Christchurch
1995 Boats, Shapes and Things, Avid, Wellington
Group exhibitions in Fingers, Avid, Form, Lure, The Dowse Art Gallery, Manawatu Art Gallery, Ashburton Art Gallery, and Masterworks.
Please contact the gallery for further information on available work.
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