coloured glass in blackened stone

Oil on board

frenzy

Two weeks of frantic throwing around of ideas - looking at light, space and atmosphere.

collage in situ

Field trip to Ardtornish Estate, Argyll

painting in jewels

Exploring the impact and meaning of the fundamental materiality of substances.

Egg tempera and pigment

Charcoal

Beeswax, pigment and oil paint

Oil and pigment

Oil and Damar varnish

fractured sight lines

How does the pervasiveness of photography influence the way we see? How can paint capture and convey something more than the detailed photographic image? 

Hanoi at night

Collage disruption 

Rebuilding the collage in paint

Paint and collage combined

Veiled views

Drawing with charcoal from film projections. Then, with paint, trying to capture the transience of the scenes and express the distance between the viewer and the image created by its mediation through the camera lens and projection.

The paintings were constructed by first building the shapes and tones in coloured inks before knocking back the colour with thin white and more neutralised colours.

Princes Street

Waverley Station

stone whispers

Some sketches from Speyer.