This piece is about Paradise.

Our visions and perceptions of the world and beyond are very personal to each individual.

Since this is true, I wanted to paint what it means to me in the form of a portrait.

Im well aware that paradise isn’t a place that we seek, but a state of mind…an inner happiness.

From a boy though, I’ve always had the same vision of a place that I could go to whenever I closed

my eyes…and it always began at the same moment and location.

It was an other worldly place, a warm tropical place with lush jungle and dozens of waterfalls sprawled

across different levels. I knew it was imaginary…but I loved going there to escape wherever I was in

reality.

I always wanted to try and paint this place within the imaginary and physical context that I’d created

In my mind…and although this piece only scratches the surface of it…I loved painting it.

Whatever paradise means to you, stay connected to it, because its yours!

If you are happy inside, then you can live in paradise no matter where you reside!

(Acrylic on paper)

Choose Love is back! Over the last few months myself and many other talented artists have been working to create original artworks for the CHOOSE LOVE 2021 exhibition. Curated by Print Club London the exhibition of over 50 original artworks raises money to support the incredible work of @chooselove. Each artist has made their mark on the iconic @katharinehamnett’s CHOOSE LOVE’ slogan and the original pieces will be on sale throughout the exhibition, with all proceeds going directly to the charity.

This piece is called Queen of Hearts, based on the picture cards from a pack of playing cards.

This series of indigo painting sketches are about beauty and chaos. One cannot exist without the other and the relationship between the two is what led me to begin visual exploration.

Other than the obvious visions of beauty and chaos, I’m acutely interested in how they each effect us, influence us, hurt us and enrich us as human beings. The very nuances that bind them together, the psychology behind our perception of reality and the human condition.

~ WORK IN PROGRESS ~

A Series of 3-5 (50x70cm) pieces about the importance of listening to our instincts and reconnecting with Nature.

The work looks at what we as humans value the most and our obsession with escapism through any means necessary.

Through making this work I aim to explore these questions;

Why do we feel this suffocating urge to break free from the constraints of society? 

Why also do we choose to hide our desires and act inauthentically?

What are we so afraid of?

Family portrait commission - Indigo ink and acrylic on board, hand finished with gold and silver leaf.

This series of paintings are about interpersonal perception. Since our faces are the focal point of our character, there is a myriad of ways our character can be perceived. I wanted to paint them rapidly and loosely with indigo ink, allowing pigment bleeds, mistakes and much simpler strokes to explore whether it has any influence over this. If a face is incomplete, distorted or unusual…are we still able to identify beauty? This approach achieves a far more expressive result and allows me to paint freely, before the result can be influenced by thought and analysis.

Acrylic on paper 

This giant jungle vista is mostly from my imagination but was designed to be a wallpaper backdrop for a collaborative concept space.

Prints are available of this at 120x102cm

Acrylic on paper, hand finished with gold, iridescent and marbled paper detail. 143 x 84cm

The first and still the most popular Pineapple painting I've ever produced, acrylic on paper.

From nowhere this freehand painting has enabled me to continue making artwork about my favourite subject, the tropics.

This series of paintings were born from my observations of the Panadus Palm tree while in Sri Lanka. It's spectacular stilted roots and pineapple'esque fruits caught my attention and the more I looked the more I began seeing the bio mechanical nature of them. My sketches began to resemble something of Harry Beck's London underground map design, graphic, colourful and full of circular junctions. 

My latest tropical piece of a southern Sri Lankan view I woke up to each morning while in Madiha beach back in December 2017.
In this 2 week period I finally found complete peace and maximum creativity, and for the first time in my professional career as an artist was able to paint freely.

My second meaningful self portrait, this time about both strength and vulnerability. Inspired by Guido Reni’s paintings of St.Sebastian, the Christian Martyr who died standing up for his beliefs.

Acrylic on canvas 2019

December 2017, while away in Sri Lanka with my family, became one of the most creatively freeing few weeks I’ve ever experienced. Rising before the sun every morning to prepare for painting as the light washed over the tropical landscape, was unforgettable.

These banana paintings marked a moment of true kindness from a local fruit grower supplying the small hotel we were staying at. He became our personal Tuctuc driver and brought us a fresh bunch of the sweetest bananas every morning.

His existence was humble but his kindness was remarkable, so I painted him a picture of some of his unharvested bananas that I took when he showed me around his patch, to say thank you!

My first meaningful self portrait, about an unclear identity

Acrylic on paper 2008