ART

    I paint - mostly oil on canvas, and mostly still lives and landscapes.
    Simultaneously (and on a larger scale) I strive to create a body of work (mostly photographic, and often incorporating text) that explores todays culture and its infatuation with appearances, consumerism, celebrity, leisure and expectations: in short, what drives and motivates us today...
    For a glance at some of this art, click on
     

  • Paintings - a few samples of some recent work...

  • Vanitas - the Excessive Pride series - a contemporary take on 17th Century Dutch Vanitas paintings...
     
  • Objective Portraits - a group of people were asked for objects that they felt represented them in some way... some of the owners felt characterised even personified by these objects in ways that looks, thoughts or language could not express...