This represents a shift in work pattern. The materials used have been not too dissimilar to what I have used before. But the main change being the use of concrete as a base. Its going to be interesting to see how they look on the gallery wall. I don't believe a photogfraph does them justice however.

 

Another image from the show in Vyner St. Packed to the rafters on this occasion. This piece was completed over the December period and seems to be a watershed in my development. I wanted this to be a reflective piece. Alot of the influence this year had come from coastal areas in Britain, and I had moved onto mixing various varnishes with oils to create the effects seen.

London-Midland Art Exhibition Feb 2012

Some pictures from a show I took part in with fellow artists, Lee Burrows, James Grimditch, Nick Town and Bilkicks Khanam

Topolski Century Show

10th-13th November 2011

 

Written below is the artistic statement used for the aforementioned show.

Essentially a landscape painter who became heavily influenced by abstraction and expressive imagery combined with travelling over the United Kingdom. The work is constructed on steel panels either using various sources as provision, surfaces applies using varnishes and a combination of acrylics, broken charcoal sticks and industrial oil paints. The paints are applied in layers ensuring the beginning colours which are applied do not necessarily the colours which feature in the final layers.

Observing surface texture which appears on everyday objects have always played an important part in how my work develops, how colours are forged naturally over time to create vivid, complex patterns showing decay and decomposition, how paints which have been applied become worn, damaged and finally replaced. Travelling around London and the lesser travelled parts of the UK give inspiration.

(“In many respects, the work I do is all about reducing the impact of random imagery. When using paint, you have to have a certain amount of faith, like with many things in life. Faith you can achieve the correct colour mixes, faith the paint will create the desired effect and in many cases, will morph and blister in the correct way when heat is applied”)

7^th Layer Collective is a combining of artistic talent from around Europe and Rugby coming together to create a vision represented here in colour, for me to chronicle and portrait the colour of everyday life where feelings and orientation is closely linked to the environment we occupy.