Original artwork description:

My true passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want to create paintings which draw the viewer in, which makes them stop…and then see more than the initial work form and colour.

I have a lot of influences from Lucian Freud, Picasso to Botticelli. A few years ago, I was given a book of Botticelli's works; his use of colour instantly struck me.

Since then, I have grown bolder and more spontaneous, too, using the palette knife to build texture into my work. I like to sculpt the paints with my palette knife and feel the passion and emotion as the image takes shape on the canvas before me.

Materials used:

Oil on canvas

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