Catalogue
"What Lies Beneath" 104x170cm
Acrylic and ink on raw canvas
05/2021 Ref #205
"Pink Moon" 141x151cm
Acrylic and spray paint on raw canvas.
02/2021 #189
This is my biggest painting yet and has been a real joy to work on. I've preserved the underlying layers with thin washes of colour. However this also has a fair bit of texture and some unpainted parts to emphasise the materiality of the surface. You'll find your eyes wandering around the canvas and coming to rest at certain places before moving to other parts. And you'll be looking for a pattern to try and make sense of it.
"Fragments" 88x64cm
Acrylic and ink on raw canvas
02/2020 #185
This piece took almost a year to paint with arcs of red and green ink splashed across the raw canvas. But I could never work out where to go with it and so would put it away for months at a time.
In the new studio (since Jan 2021) on the South Bank of the Thames I have more space to put things up and can leave them there while working on other paintings. After adding more arcs in different colours I realised something different needed to happen and so squeegeed paint into both sides of the canvas - diluted light blue on one side and white on the other. Spent several days looking to see which side to use - eventually choosing the side with the blue wash.
I decided to break up the curves with lines drawn in fine pencil. Then the coloured fragments, each responding to the others around adjacent as well as across the canvas. And finally... a painting that I'm happy with, and happy to share.
"Skateboarder" 94x57cm acrylic and ink on raw canvas. 03/2021 #191
I really like the play of light and movement in this picture. The splash of ink in the middle was the starting point and brought some strong energy to the piece.
"Colliaion" 73x152cm acrylic on raw canvas
08/2020 Ref #153
I was thinking about particle accelerator collisions, the idea of smashing things together to find out the fundamentals of our existence.
"Angles" 67x37cm acrylic on raw canvas. 03/2021 #190
Playing around with some simple shapes and colours, and some push/pull effects.