A personal plea (?)

I really do have to create some space in our storage units – so if anybody wants the paintings below – make me an offer or they will go on the bonfire.

‘Another Fish’
Oil, Acrylic, Computer cut vinyl on canvas
2003/05

‘Unlearning old skills and employing new strategies are a constant preoccupation…….questioning about how (and in how many ways) we can read the resulting work itself. His stance has been courageous – he has been prepared to let go; take risks and this is beginning to pay dividends.’…..Quote

‘Self Portrait’ Oil, Acrylic, Computer cut vinyl on canvas 2003/05

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I have been accused of being extremely arrogant. I prefer to call it confident. My paintings have become Schizophrenic, I can switch from one ‘style’ of painting to another. Why is it frowned upon to switch from style to style? What is the point of pursuing a singular line of practice?

'Using tape has been a central preoccupation and that in many works has been linked to a professional skill of computer cut imagery.


Picking the next step will require care. Experimentation and novelty have their attractions and there is an aspect to some of the work that revels in the new – the new material; new cut; new size; new interpretation.


I keep thinking about George Braque who learnt artificial wood graining from his time as a decorator; the story goes that he taught Picasso and these painted renderings of wood surface became a staple of cubism.


Computer cut religious imagery; why look any further?'…..Quote

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