Remember to Remember - 40 x 50 in

Welcome

This is a space where painting and writing meet.

I’m a painter and writer, and I use this publication to share new paintings, poems, works in progress, and occasional reflections on the process of making them.

My paintings begin with observation but increasingly move between what can be seen and what can only be sensed. Measures, boundaries, memory, chance and intuition all enter the work. I’m interested in what emerges when structure meets uncertainty, and in what may lie beneath the small part of experience available to our senses.

Writing has gradually become part of the same practice. Sometimes a painting gives rise to a poem; sometimes words reveal something in a painting that I hadn’t yet understood. I don’t see one as an explanation of the other. They come from the same enquiry.

About me

My relationship with painting began early. As a child, I attended workshops at the St Ives School of Painting in Cornwall with my grandfather, encountering the work and legacy of artists including Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson.

I later became an art educator in the UK before moving with my family to Mexico, where I lived for fourteen years and founded The Heart of Learning, a creative learning centre. During those years, the light, colour and landscape of the Mexican Caribbean profoundly affected my painting and helped move the work away from direct observation toward a more intuitive abstraction.

I now live and work in Toulon, in the south of France, where painting and poetry have become increasingly intertwined.

What you’ll find here

I share finished paintings and works on paper, poems connected to the work, glimpses of paintings as they develop, and occasional writing about perception, memory, intuition and the process of making.

Paintings and works on paper are available for acquisition. For current work and enquiries, you can also follow my work on Instagram or contact me directly.

Adam

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