Education
Colin studied at Maidstone Art College and Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University).
Recent exhibitions
- Life Past at St Martin’s in the Bull Ring, 2008
- Echoes of a Congregation: a series of drawings of a dilapidated church, superimposed over digital photographs. The result is a haunting view of a real former congregation from the 1970s.It was shown at
- St Martin’s in the Bull Ring, 2006
- Lichfield Cathedral December 2007-January 2008
- Worcester Cathedral May 2007
- Haunted by War A series of four paintings based on a veteran of the second world war. As the years progress, his experience of that war pervades and dominates his daily life, with all the concomitant memories of loss.
- Birmingham University 2oo7
Colin is always happy to discuss plans for future exhibitions.
In his own words
“The main themes in my work are the effect of time and memories. I use photography as both primary and secondary medium, as a way of illuminating an idea as well as defining it. Some of the photographs in the mixed media work are designed to be less stable. These have been treated so that over a period of years they behave like memories, subtly changing either in colour or by fading.
“My regular visits to the sea I find inspiring, both for the evocation of childhood memories of Hastings in Sussex, and for the physicality and sheer power of the ocean.”
