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 | Artist Profile Rod showed early promise as an artist and, after pursuing a more academic route, returned to painting after graduating from the university of Manchester.
After graduation, Rod spent a year in Devon where he began to embark on his career as a painter. He returned to Worcestershire where he rented a top floor studio in Kidderminster, and although these initial years were not easy, he was being recognised and stocking a range of galleries in the Midlands and further afield in Devon, Cornwall and Wales.
In 1997 he opened his own studio gallery in the Worcestershire village of Mamble which proved a good base; the beautiful setting provided much inspiration and attracted many customers.
In search of a new challenge and attracted by the Shropshire landscape, he opened a new gallery in 2006 in the world heritage site of Ironbridge.
Rod started out working mainly in oil, with some of his paintings being finely detailed and almost photographic in style. He later turned to the notoriously challenging medium of watercolour: ’Oil paint will sit there and wait to be told what to do,whereas watercolour can run away from you if your attention wavers for a moment. Each watercolour is a process of discovery.’ He was influenced by watercolourists from the past and present including Edward Seago, Joseph Turner and Trevor Chamberlain, and so concentrated on a fresh, more impressionistic approach in his work.
The theme that runs throughout Rod’s work in oil and watercolour is his intuitive feel for light and atmosphere. He will often venture out before sunrise and at dusk-the times of day when shape and form meld and retain an air of mystery - to capture the changing, often ethereal effects of the light.
Rod has shown work throughout the British Isles and has an ever increasing client base both within the United Kingdom and abroad. |
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