Selected Works
A selection of recent paintings.
Once More Wandering
The Journeyers
Now I Am Here
Waiting
Each Thing Is Full
Forest Parade
Night Pilgrims
Seeking A Pure Flame
Encyclopaedia Project (2022-Present)
Using old Arthur Mee Children’s Encyclopaedia’s (1908) as sketchbooks this project began with a fascination for the wonder held within their pages. Images and fragments became portals to an imaginal world; one where the edges between human, animal and cosmos begin to dissolve to create an enchanted universe that recognises the intrinsic value of all beings — seen and unseen.
Iced Gem
Direction
Here Comes
Winged rider
Welcome to strangers
In The Jar
Tropical Sunrise
I Declare Joy
Wolf Girl
Float
Adventurers
Watching
Scribing
Scribing
Feeling The Rise
Cowboys
Through The Rays
Spreading The Love
The Scribe
Know
The golden egg
Blue Deer
Fires Of The Earth
Cockrell
The Magician
The Inner Planets
The Collectors
Night Anemone
Masked Madonna
Morning Song
Windfall
Watching 2
Life is but a dream
Meditation
Let Me Guide Me
Two heros
Holding up the world
Escalator world
The Pearl Pickers
Marvellous power
The covering
Compilation 2
Compilation 3
Compilation 1
Pools & Palms (2018-2020)
This body of work emerged from a decade of living in San Francisco CA, a landscape and culture profoundly different from my homeland in the UK.
Palm trees, desert forms and cacti become recurring motifs to explore a sense of displacement, fascination and freedom. The intense Californian light, heat and expansive landscape transform the familiar into something dreamlike; at once real and imagined. Somewhere between observation and fantasy, drawing on its otherworldly beauty; a place loved and reimagined.
Night Pools 3
Family 2
Night Pools 2
Palms 1
Mountain Moons
Palms 2
Palms 4
Palms 3
Palms 2
Palms 5
Blue Pool
Through the Umbrellas
Nopal Dreams
Through the Umbrellas 2
Family
Lilo
Night Pool
Girls
In these works I paint directly onto my own archival photographic prints overlaying them with a recurring figure; a girl seen from behind almost an apparition. Her presence shifts between images and landscapes, becoming part of the environment and somehow separate from it. We never see her face, instead, we become witnesses to her quiet relationship with the world around her. Through repetition she becomes the vessel for intimacy — at times absorbed into the landscape, at others caught in a state of contemplation or entanglement. Painting onto the photograph introduces something imagined, and allows the works to exist somewhere between the real and the other.
Moon Girl
Sun Girl
Hair Girl
Bubble Girl
