About
The painter
Light changes everything. The same stretch of coast visited twice becomes two entirely different paintings — same place, different world.
Born in Antrim, Northern Ireland, Colin grew up with an attentiveness to the natural world that his mother quietly encouraged from the start. After periods in Germany and across the UK, he settled in Birmingham in 1985 — drawn, eventually, to the city's fine art school on Margaret Street, where he graduated with a BA Honours in Fine Art in 1997.
It was in that final year that he understood what he was. Not a student of art, but a painter — someone for whom the canvas is the only honest way of communicating how it feels to stand in a field in fading light, or watch the tide pull itself back from a Northern Irish shore.
Colin works intuitively — sometimes from a sketch or photograph, often from memory and feeling. His paintings are held in private and public collections across Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Expressing nature in my work probably stems from my early childhood experiences of connecting with nature. For me, as a painter, nature can be liberating — and its beauty, a power.”
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