Statement
I want to live in a world where dull does not exist and banality is an unknown word. A world where candy coloured bunnies float amidst silky bubbles of effervescent light whilst listening to some way back funk. I am not a big fan of realism. I have too many fantasies of escapism, or rather freedom, from day to day familiar scenes.
My work is inspired by vital elements of our existence which we cannot see day to day - outer space, inner body, underwater. I am also fascinated by the hidden beauty of all simple things around us, such as…. city lights, car lights, neon signs, sweet wrappers, plastic toys, sprinkle coated cupcakes, daisy chains, ….. the make up of the everyday. I like to look through semi closed eyes and simply pick out the colour, the form, the texture - as if looking through a microscope or peering up a kaleidoscope as high as the stars
I experiment with expressive uses of paint and heightened use of colour, playing colour against colour, light against dark and layer upon layer of texture. Elements of repetition become pattern, become surface, hint at the rhythms and precision which stem from our human foundations. I experiment with forms and materials, dragging the old traditional oil paints of yesteryear into the futuristic and industrial age of resin, glosses and spray paint. Surfaces and subject matter are often left to the hands of experiment, there is no fixed outcome, no fixed stop point, no edge of the canvas. My photographs transform often banal subject matters into quasi abstracted fields of heightened colour and rhythmic forms. My drawings are simple and reduced investigations into the basic principles of lines, shapes and forms. For me my works become environments of somewhere else, somewhere to get lost in, to escape to and indulge in. I do not expect you to see, feel or comprehend anything specific from my work - there is plenty of reason, strategy, policy, hypocrisy, do's, dont's, should's and conformity racing through our veins. Let's get back to the basics, just like a circle where there is no beginning and no end; back to the point of what it is for you, just you, and maybe me.