About the work

My work is dominated by figures, be they human or animal, in some form of landscape or space. A simple line across an image can create this illusion. These characters and creatures are cartoon like. I see them as dark and humorous - ‘Never a truer word spoken in jest.’ I use graphite sticks, pencils and acrylic on paper.

I try to work intuitively. When I draw, I draw. I make marks on the paper. The images appear. As I work and refine them, they change and evolve. Sometimes I leave them in their raw bare state. As the work evolves I become consious of the composition and the possible relationship between the images.

I try to lose myself, my ego, in this process thus allowing myself to be surprised by the images unfolding. This method appears to be a contradiction, a battle between reason and anarchy. Conscious and subconscious. Light and dark. Battle may be too strong a word as one relies on the other. It is a symbiotic reationship.

‘There is no such thing as good art or bad art, but honest or dishonest art.’