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Art Deco & Oil Painting
About the Artist continued.........

To avoid the perils of creative ruts, I like to vary subject matter and inspirations. I've dabbled with Apocalyptic Visions of Biblical Prophets, visited the realms of Faeries, and meandered the meadows of Metaphysics. I've regularly featured ruins of architecture lost to nature, finding such places immensely uplifting. There is a quality about decay and dereliction that quashes human pomposity and denotes the frailty of our muscular industrialised civilisation, which is simply our miniscule and temporary imprint in the nature of Earths evolution.

By early 2006, after a brief dalliance with Art Deco kitchenware, painting activites halted to make time for sculpture production commitments. Following a 3 year break from painting, the death of my stepfather sparked a return to oils and canvas'. He always encouraged my artwork and I saw his untimely demise as a focus to return to my painting obsession. As Francis Bacon declared - 'A painter should always paint', (though I suspect he'd have hated my work....don't mind, his is extraordinary!) 2009's early ideas revolved around the relentless march of time, blithely hauling our mortality. The later 'Mechanomorphism' pieces explore post human organisms forming amoebic technology to aid evolution into a future dominant species.

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