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I have been painting images of newspaper clippings for about four years now. They came to prominence in my work following 9/11, the day of my MA graduation, when I showed a painting of Bin Laden pointing a gun at a triumphant George Bush. It had been painted about a month previously. The use of newspaper clippings provides a very flat spatial field, recalls certain trompe l’oile 17th century still life and can deal directly with contemporary issues such as cloning and terrorism. These are contemporary manifestations of the timeless themes of birth and death. Recently I have been working on an ongoing, and never ending, series of obituaries. Obituaries condense a life into a few column inches and a single image – a scrap of newsprint that becomes a heavy token, a memento, even an icon, when rendered in paint.
The act of painting and therefore sustained concentration brings a degree of focus and depth to what otherwise would be fleeting moments in the press.

Richard Pryor

2006
Oil on linen
30x45cm

Guinea Pigs

2005
oil on linen
40x60cm

Leon Golub

2006
oil on linen
90x120cm

Robert Altman

2007
25 x 40cm

News 19 (Sudan)

2006
35 x 35 cm

Anna Nicole Smith

2007
20 x 30cm

Boris Yeltsin

2007
25 x 45cm

World News

2005
50 x 70 cm