Current series-'Tones of Tamano'
- a series of paintings celebrating the calming qualities and natural beauty of Tamano and the surrounding Seto inland sea.
Since coming to live here with my family in 2022 I have been mesmirized by the calm and quiet beauty of Tamano. The creation of this collection is an attempt to capture that calming quality and beauty l am lucky enough to experience and to pass those feelings on to you the observer.
If I had to sum up how I paint in one word, it would be intuitively. I rarely paint with an end product in mind although in some of my work I see scenes or places in the painting and I know where they are, in others I can see particular features of different parts of Tamano that have come together naturally within a painting. The serenity of the quiet sea, surrounding mountains and stunning coastline I see everyday stay deep within me and somehow flow from my brush as I paint.
One of my main aims is to employ the diversity of colours that present themselves intuitively or naturally at different times of day. Cool blue dawns, yellow hazy summer days, calming purple evenings and quiet green mornings all impart thier own temperature and feeling of comfort. This array of colours, shades and hues all interact in a way that give similar views varying sensitive qualities.
I hope my paintings help to impress the allure this area shows me, something that you too may see every day but never really noticed. Now here, in this space and time, you may see things in a completely different light and also feel them in within you in a new serene and calming way.
Perhaps we don’t always appreciate what we have in our lives and take it for granted that where we are on our journey is just where we are. Perhaps it only takes someone like me, coming from a very different place, to see just what inner beauty and tranquility there is within the Tones of Tamano.