My work is an attempt to recreate, through colour and form, the intensity of human experience. I paint usually with acrylic and oils, and then scan the paintings into PhotoShop.In this exhibition I shall be exhibiting some images conventionally framed, and some mounted on lightboxes. Even as an agnostic, I still cannot help but be affected by the chromatic impact of stained glass. The act of scanning immediately changes my palette from that of paint to that of light, and I can create a more visually sophisticated light-based images than glass and lead would allow me to do, while keeping the essential organic nature of paint and brush-strokes.
I’m drawn to the Fauvists, early abstract painters, and artists like Chaim Soutine, as I see a passion and sheer joy in their use of paint, absent from the clinical intellectualism that has been dominating the current art scene. I am also becoming increasingly interested to Neolithic art, such as in the caves of Lascaux. It is anonymous, working on an essentially visual level, in marked contrast to the contemporary art scene. The similarity of mark and visual device, like the hand imprint, in such disparate geographic locations as South Africa, Russia, as well as Lascaux, intrigues me.
I have exhibited in the environment of the modern dance club such as Brighton's The Concorde 2, relegating my images to a support role to the musical, secular liturgy of the DeeJay, similar to that played by stained glass to religious ceremony in churches. I have also exhibited in a range of galleries and other art spaces in London and Brighton over the last couple of years, such as Skylark Gallery and Cyberia in London; and St Peter's Bar, The Brighton Media Centre Gallery and Borders Bookshop in Brighton. I have taken part in the Brighton Fringe Festival in 1999 and 2000, and had a picture published in The Sunday Times in May 2000. My work was also exhibited in Little Rock, Arkansas, and I was featured artist on the Museum of Computer Art website from February to April 2000.