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Presumably the first of many automatic drawings. Based on a magazine image the body lines appear to correspond with body chakras. My first book to read on the subject will be : Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung  

I draw is a slippery term. In isolation it’s imprecise and needs context to confer meaning. It could be about air, attention, carriage, comparison, conclusion, curtains, game, gas, lots, liquid, money, move, picture, pull, reaction, smoke, talk, or weapons. It […]

My Inner Monologue – The smooth paper or the textured paper. That is the question! New grain paper is great to experiment with… How a pencil mark can alter its course because of it’s surface. I am not sure what […]

Timber Mirror Walk 2013, plywood, acrylic mirror and hand printed felt. Timber Mirrors were carried from the gallery to a heritage site called the Cliffs of Moher. I chose this site because it acted as a backdrop of everything and nothing. The […]

  At the time that I was making this drawing I was  scrabbling around in bits of Lacan and Hal Foster to try to understand ‘The Real’.  I came across the notion of it being prelinguistic, undifferentiated experience and this […]

A bit of delay in the latest posting as it took me a while to work out my sub was due to Artists’ Network: the administration of modern life! I wanted to post a review of Afgang, 2015, the graduation […]

Adding the ‘grisaille’ layer to my latest drawing with graphite and burnishing tools.

‘all or nothing’ was how I was once aptly described by my friend’s mum. It then became the title of my first solo exhibition. Contemplating a title for this blog, it was the first title to spring to mind and, […]

Collage isn’t a technique I’ve made much use of in the past, my previous chopping up of found images has always been reductive rather than additive. (removing areas with a sharp scalpel or a digital airbrush) But as a thinking […]

There’s something really powerful about being impulsive or spontaneous. My practice seems to rely on impulsivity, rarely is a recent work pre-planned. There’s something interesting about pulling whatever material seems to be in front of me, like a take away […]

A Short film on how I created the Sunflowers Commission (in red) for a client. The Sunflowers Commission (in red) is inspired by Van Gogh’s Sunflower Series. The abstract drawing has been produced with ink, bubbles, watercolour, pencil and coloured […]