artist printmaker
#sourceofabstraction – the boundary between
Natural Forms is part of a series of works inspired by nature. While they provide life-long sources of interest, these subjects ultimately form the basis of my abstract paintings which are both hard-edged and yet fluid in appearance. Natural Forms focuses on the boundary between flora and fauna, such as a fungus that resembles flesh, or a shell that takes on the appearance of a human ear.
#everchangingseasons – the continual cycle
Seasons is part of a series of works inspired by nature. While they provide life-long sources of interest, these subjects ultimately form the basis of my abstract paintings which are both hard-edged and yet fluid in appearance. Seasons looks closely at the continual cycle of birth, growth, maturity and death.
This is one of my very long-term projects which is far from being completed, as I have not yet understood sufficiently what it is about. I have completed over 100 drawings with an accompanying 10,000 word text.
#signsoffertility – source of abundance
Cycladic fertility figures are fascinatingly androgynous compared with the Venus of Willendorf and more familiar depictions of fertility by early artists, but they are no less appealing in form and they catch the attention of museum goers.
After fuelling my own fascination with drawings and models, I now want to bring them alive in a 3D animation to explore how they would move, speak, and what personality characteristics would suit their intriguing body shapes.
#whatliesatthecore – deeper understanding
To talk about man’s relationship with nature (the environment) is a good place to start understanding how we react with what surrounds us. We are as much a part of ‘nature’ as a bee gathering pollen or a frilled shark grazing on the ocean floor.
The four paintings in the East Dean Quartet explore themes of birth, discovery, power and fate.
#capturingalikeness – observation and perception
The portrait is the real test of an artist’s skills, and even if an artist never tackles the subject it will always be there before them as a challenge, so why not tackle it head on?
Portraits by artists from Rembrandt to Saville are among our greatest works of art; the observation and perception of character goes beyond mere paint on canvas. The ultimate test – the self-portrait.
#adifferenttruth – the unintelligible understandable
As there is no culture without mythology, then it is easy to think of cultures as myths re-enacted in the present day. What is often so surprising about myths is that they have little or no basis in fact, they are there simply to make the unintelligible understandable, adding to an individual’s sense of identity.
With this in mind, I reinterpret myths for my own ends in drawings and paintings to serve the same purpose – to make life intelligible.
