2022-2023

I wonder why I choose these bedraggled places. There is something profoundly intriguing about somewhere that no longer harbours life. An abandoned place, or a ruin, is where reality and imagination cross paths. It is a ‘present form of the past’ where they strangely exist all in one space. Our curiosity for history cannot be…

2021

I look at my darkened landscape. I am not fearful, only uncomfortable, imagining myself in this situation that my paintbrush has helped form. A single light beams strong and steady against a heavy rising façade, towering its concrete walls over the quiet street below. Through Painting I realise I can come back again and again,…

2020

A murky darkness descended heavily upon the rooftops of the distant buildings, as the rain began to cascade down, bubbling and pooling at the edge of the curb. This had once been a place of life. No stood alone, useless and vacant, the building surrendered to the undergrowth that crept silently into its decaying structure;…

2019

Time of day dictates how we carry out our lives, and darkness offers us both positive and negative emotions. My nocturnal imagery explores why we fear the dark, and examines what our instinctual associations are, with the atmosphere that surrounds it. I often include the motif of artificial light within these scenes; shadowing the idea…

2018

I walked across the field when I came across the isolated house peeping out behind the hedges. I had known it was there for some time, but never seen it from this angle. I had been told that the previous owners had left all sorts of unfavourable items behind. Perhaps the most perplexing was the…

2018 3D works

My research into objects influenced the more conceptual side of my work. This was one reason for the use of scrap wood as a canvas. It became a tactile element to the subject matter, something the viewer could imagine touching, as well as creating unusual dimensions for the painting to lie within. I believe that…