May anderson
My paintings are small sometimes they are worked and reworked until I feel satisfied that I have made an honest statement about a particular place or particular things. Light and space are what make my paintings and sometimes-endless drawing and re drawing, this working process makes the picture’s surface. Less is more: my method is obsessive stripping away the clutter until I discover the bare bones (the essence) and its then that I feel I can make something from that and the experience of seeing and understanding places spaces and things
I studied at Camberwell School of Art, London and graduated in 1983, during the Easter / summer term of 1982 I attended Falmouth Art School part of an exchange programme . I went out on painting trips with Ray Atkins a painting tutor at Falmouth and have been a visiting artist to Cornwall for the past 25 years, many elements of the Cornish landscape are evocative of my native Scotland and I visit both Scotland and Cornwall often to paint research and gather information for paintings, sometimes the work is concluded in my studio in London.
