Updated January 2025
In the studio
I’m spinning a series of paintings this year whilst continuing to develop my core themes.
‘people take pictures of each other just to prove that they really existed’
The Kinks
THE VISTORS (In Progress)
A beautiful box of late 19th century photographs were gifted to me and they’ve led to a series of large oil paintings, I’ve called ‘The Visitors’.
These exquisite, sepia-toned images, in the Carte Vista style, of people with no name who lived lives as we do. Long gone. Laid down like sedimentary rock. Traces of their time and place.
These paintings therefore deal with impermanence, memory and the layering of things. Apparitions from the deep past and visions of future states.
To quote The Kinks, ‘people take pictures of each other just to prove that they really existed’.
KIMONO (In Progress)
An all too rare three-dimensional piece, focusing on a kimono I designed and constructed in canvas.
Utilising print, spray-paint, drawing and oil painting to capture embryonic narratives on beauty and constraint, bondage and servitude.
IN PROGRESS: KIMONO
Mixed medial on canvas garment
IN PROGRESS: PSYCHOBABBLE
Oil, mixed medial on canvas / 200 x 120
IN PROGRESS
