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  • Don'tDon'tperhaps a homage to Scarfolk. It's a term almost ubiquitous in its applicability. It's maybe the defining term of our times. Societies are d…
  • pulp addictionpulp addictionsome of my favourite artworks are pulp magazine covers. Maybe I'll do a proper showcase one day. In the meantime here are a selection of mas…
  • timetimetime, entropy, old age, health, magazines, berries, all abstractions. This is not a collage. All art depicts time, and maybe none more so th…
  • stormstormsometimes making a mess is all that's needed. The world is messy. Mess makes sense. Tidiness is strange and threatening. Noise and chaos is…
  • TraumaTraumasticking bits of paper on other bits of paper reduces trauma effects. Most assertions on my artworks are rhetorical.
  • collage and coloured pencilcollage and coloured pencilmixing up mediums is where a lot of my creativity comes from. Not the fact that there is anything novel in the act itself, it's that the ten…
  • ink and boredomink and boredomI had to be in a room and be quiet. I found some inks and bamboo pens and a bit of display board. I had no plan. The quiet and the enforced…
  • sketches, oil, papersketches, oil, paperwhen try and write, for its own sake I mean, nothing is coming out. I am painting compulsively. This is what's coming out. My thoughts are m…
  • holes in treesholes in treesI can look inside many living things. Including myself. But there is something magical about peering into a tree.
  • The Sky and the TreeThe Sky and the TreeI wanted to say something profound about this video, but everything I think of sounds trite and forced. The reality is, that I was walking t…
  • warmthwarmthmy intention was to do something that explored negative space. I love artworks that do this. Clearly I failed. I'm not good at empty. It mak…
  • things seen while out walking - the Buddha emerges from the forest floorthings seen while out walking - the Buddha emerges from the forest floorit was a surprise to see Buddha emerging from the forest floor, but a good one. I find depiction of Buddha to be immensely calming. He is th…
  • oil sketchesoil sketchesExperiments. I just put a brush to paper and see what emerges. It's liberating because it's such low stakes. It really doesn't matter if it'…
  • red and brown thingsred and brown thingsbecause it's autumn and the colours are magical.
  • painted outpainted outI made a painting and I hated it so I painted it out. This is quite a liberating thing, because it's like a freebie. A new canvas comes with…
  • My best works tend to come from a process of starting a painting with little or no preconception of what will emerge and continuing until it…
  • whatever this is I love itwhatever this is I love itsome things are just perfectly satisfying. I don't know what it's for keeping fences together? but it's visually very appealing. There are t…
  • the unbearable rightness of paintingthe unbearable rightness of paintingmy best works tend to come from a process of starting a painting with little or no preconception of what will emerge and continuing until it…
  • enter the wormsenter the wormsyeah I don't know
  • orange fungiorange fungithe sexual organ of the organism that mostly exists underground. The substance is beneath the surface. The beauty is a protrusion. Not sure…
  • wood on woodwood on woodinspiration comes at strange times. Walking the local woods, seeing dead wood all around. Knowing I had some bits of an old wooden pallet at…
  • forgotten thingsforgotten thingssometimes old things emerge that you had forgot about. I forgot about these. I like them. I haven't done anything like this for a while. May…
  • whywhyit's not clear why what goes on inside does so. Why would how that expresses be any different? Consciousness makes no sense. Neither do its…
  • rocket shipsrocket shipswe don't need to go there when here is so perfect. Fizzing movements to the ego of small men. Silly little flaccid nobodies. Take their rock…
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