Exhibition - Cass Art 1-14 November 2021

I’m so excited to finally be presenting this exhibition. It’s previously been rescheduled 3 times over a period of 18 months due to Covid, so to hang the show and see the work as it is meant to be seen feels like a major achievement.

One thing I have noticed whilst going through the pieces is a slight development in style that has occurred during this waiting period. The earlier pieces are more stylised and humorous, whilst the later images tend to be more overtly serious. However, all the work is still definitely to do with monsters, and monstrous events, and how they impact us.

I am very curious to see what the public things of them.

A New Symbolism

My First Post - What It’s All About

Welcome to my website. In it I am showcasing recent works, or in some cases, older pieces that have been recently reworked. All the pieces are about the way I interpret the world around me. I am concerned with social unease and anxiety - escalating environmental change, political and economic instability, the fear of and paranoia generated by terrorism, and conflict. Spaces become fractured and empty. Humans and animals mutate or morph.

But these are filtered through my fascination with such things as film noir, sci fi books, 1950s B movies, World War 1 and 2 war machines, mythology, history, archaeology, and the interactions between humans and animals. As well as fear and confusion, there can be tenderness, humour and optimism in these images.

I love the actual process of making and can spend months building up layers of colour and texture. My favourite mediums are oil paints, chalk pastels, charcoal and pencil.

Onwards

Ok. I freely admit technology is not my thing. I would far rather be painting than typing about my paintings - I suppose this is the perenial problem for the modern blogging painter. To blog, or to paint!.

At the moment I am working on a couple of paintings of people waiting for a ship, with a city in the background. The ship hasn’t arrived as yet. In fact the people are ghosts and are based on images of the Spanish Civil War, from which my family fled as refugees.

I am also finishing a couple of paintings based on Don Quixote.