Making art

that mines the

personal in search of

the cosmic

and the absurd.

More than ever, I am enjoying the challenges of crafting complicated, pored-over art objects that can shake up a space.

My particulate paintings start with a will to illustrate a dynamic or theory, such as gravity, accretion, dispersion, and develop intuitively through layering and surface archaeology, building forms slowly, sometimes over years.

In the past I have compared their creation to the workings of a rock pool, though I am not interested in the faithful depiction of natural phenomena but, instead, building abstract anomalies that can lure in a certain kind of viewer and not let them go.

My preference is contemporary water-based paints and mediums, including those infused with pearlescent microplastics, glow-in-the-dark pigments, semi-precious minerals and more. I continue to embrace toxic colour schemes, neon in moderation, and various forms of application ranging from brush to syringe.

I have ditched stretched canvas and committed to bespoke rugged ply-and-baton panels. The ply panels are sealed, primed and gessoed, hand-prepared and fixed to dressed timber bracing. The painted surface is sealed with a UV varnish, and the reverse fitted with keyhole hangers.