A lot of what I explore has to do with "What if": with peeking up the wrong end of the telescope. My themes include relationships - of course - the natural world and entropy: the conception of beauty or imagined order, its celebration and its inevitable loss.

I’ve sought to address the inner fears that each of us must tackle: including mortality, the need to make sense of what’s been gained and forfeited, and all those walking wounded in the universal and (some might say) necessary battlefields that litter human aspirations and language. There are few outright winners here, except of the most ephemeral kind. The tiny obsessions of middle age: the games all of us sometimes have to play - these are my canvas - and my occasions for humour and optimism. The memories of dark and private periods, the fresh revelations of a subsequent sort of rebirth, offer endless avenues of inquiry as well as many new and welcome pleasures.

Amongst the artists who delight (or at least, intrigue) me are Odilon Redon, Bill Brandt: Rousseau, Rothko, Blake, Chagall, Kandinsky, Edward Burra, Bonnard, Munch, Bacon, Frida Kahlo and Tamara de Lempicka; H R Giger, Ernst Haas, Georg Grosz, Francis Bowyer and Henri Cartier Bresson. Please use the link below to view / purchase any of my work.