About Me

Current themes

I'm currently working on a series of paintings which I regard as a form of natural abstraction that reinterprets natural forms using a reductive, hard edged technique that throws out soft transitions to force a kind of tension in the resolution of the visual image. I call this the AVM Series (animal, vegetable, mineral) because it deliberately removes or alters some of the visual conventions with which we identify things in nature, hopefully then pushing this agreed interpretation toward something else, something more fluid.

My artwork is also concerned with personal meanings and tensions between human scale values and earth scales. I often like to frame an idea like a ‘cartoon’ with simple elements in a unique conflict.

Contemporary design art

A subset of my practice is connected with another branch of my work experience as a production artist. Although I often attempt to keep the conceptual work and the more decorative work separate, at times the visual design aspects of artwork in the contemporary design and decor frame can be a point from where where my more conceptual work draws strong organising principles. When these overlap in a meaningful way I tend to let them cross-pollinate each other.