Didn't know what I was doing or where I was going with this but I desperately wanted to finish it. So tra la, here it is - I'm still unsure what I make of it myself

New Paintings

 

These three paintings have been uploaded in full now on the website in the Painting section.
Have a ganders HERE

 

 

Final Amy Winehouse Piece

 

The finished Amy Winehouse painting, ready for next Wednesdays event at The Embassy club where it will be auctioned off with the proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation

Amy Winehouse

 

Working on this Amy Winehouse piece, the final painting will be auctioned off at an event on 13th November with all of the proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation

Commission 10

 

(click image for larger view)

 

Oil on canvas, 42x59cm (A2)

Another nude

 

 

Finally finished this lady painting this morning, started over a year ago and never got round to completing. 

Commission #8

"Exposure"

 

"Exposure"
2013

Oil on board

40 x 40

A Commission for Christmas (#7)

 

A commission for someone to give as a gift for Christmas

Oil on Board

18" x 14"

"Breathe & Reboot" at Vyner Street Gallery

My natural automated process of approach to any initial artwork is to amplify my subject, no matter the motive or context, thus involuntarily establishing restrictions within the composition – confining any ability to capture the subject as a whole.
The work itself becomes contained within a capacity I choose, often culminating in indefinable, graceless and uncoordinated quantities.
This particular piece is from a series of which have been painted to produce fleshy, animal-like positions with attention to capture instances of motion and gesture.
The presentation of the work adds to the control I endeavour to pursue over what can be observed: encasing the study within a structure adds another deterrent where the piece becomes apprehended once more.
To isolate the subject reflects in the most part my conflicts and limitations within circadian life – repeatedly controlled and restrained within “a generation abandoned” – the preeminent execution is to breathe and reboot. 

The Brick Lane Gallery

Photograph from The Brick Lane Gallery exhibition - Voyager

Restriction of the composition, cropping of the human form, adding constraints to the image; these elements are the basis for this series of work. 

 Focussing on, and examining a limited area of the human figure- much like a surgeon would. Rather than considering it in its entirety I have aimed to capture instances of motion and gesture which construct curious shapes and perspectives of the body- with purpose and attention to produce fleshy, animal-like positions, painted in an awkward manner.

Finally finished

A Winter Wonder?

Acrylic on Canvas
October 2011