My work will be on display at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts in Chichester until 12 October. In this exhibition, (30th Sept-12th Oct) I’m interested in ‘things not being what they appear to be’ A zoo, for example, shows the placid acclimatization of lions, yet one wrong move and these domesticated ‘docile animals’ on show for the public will rip your arm off. Even our domestic pets aren’t what they seem to be when they too hunt and kill. So are we humans ignorant or are we unque

I’ve searched for an antidote to the pragmatic cynicism from a lot of people in the art market, so here I’m going to celebrate the simple joy of colour by reminding myself of a girlfriend who used to decorate envelopes, containing all the joys of Spring. The form remains semi-abstract, naive and vibrant in colour palette. I have rejected any functional purpose of the postal nature of the envelopes, they contain or conceal nothing, but carry all the fun of life. They are not d

Having turned the representational function of the work literally ‘on its head’, you immediately feel that you can’t comprehend such a clumsy attempt to add a bit of the oblique. But it does serve as a demonstration that the moment you strain to understand the recycled lines of news and the press coverage, you feel a compulsion to handle and rotate back the work? How can a 2D work so frustrate and irritate so? Is this its only value? You may feel cheated by some clumsy trick,

Some of my recent work looks like vertical columns of rain with reference to the topical issue of the British suffering the worst and sustained amount of rainfall for over a century by January 2014. The flood defenses, or lack of them, is a metaphor for our own ‘defenses’ (psychologically, emotionally, economically etc) that have been breached. Art can require an immersion, a flooding of one’s senses etc (very Victorian), to glean life’s most important principles. When the fl