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With a mixture of cement, filler PVA and oil paints I “build” brick walls on board. I carve in intricate bricks using a knife and nails to bring about a textured and tactile surface, into which I can scratch, literally attack, make marks and onto which I can apply different painting languages.

Graffiti is one kind of mark making I explore in my work. Aside from its universality and its illegal characteristics ultimately what draws me to it, is that it is a way by which an individual’s voice is heard and through which a personal mark, though temporary, is left.

Whilst exploring graffiti I began to consider “types” of housing such as architecture reminiscent of the Corbusian vision of a “ville lumiere” and “types” of housing which are non-architectural and temporary. However this interest has now shifted to focusing on the specific in architecture, namely “bricks”.

Onto these tagged brick walls I have begun to paint landscapes bringing various issues into conflict. Have the boundaries, of city versus country, in our mondern world become blurred? Our our ever exapanding cities posing a threat to natural environments? Or is it just graffitists having fun?!!!

Whilst I use particular, often “loaded,” graffiti style words and “attack” the surface, more often than not at random, ultimately I aim to combine fine art and street art into a coherent image which speaks of our modern world:experiences and encounters, a word said, a look given, emotions felt.

I am interested in the work of Jean Michele Basquiat, Dondi, David Hepher, Howard Hodgkin and Tapies.

Beauty in a Back Street

2008
31 x 41 x 5 cm

Connaught Square

2007
41 x 122 x 5 cm

Everything Available

2008
41.5 x 41.5 x 5 cm

Lost Horizons

2008
140 x 140 x 10 cm

Walton Street

2008
41 x 122 x 5 cm

Drink

2008
Oil, Acrylic, Collage and Mixed Media on Canvas
100 x 100 x 5 cm

Being Suffocated

2008
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel and Mixed Media on Canvas
100 x 100 x 5 cm

Being Suffocated

2008
Oil, Acrylic, Enamel and Mixed Media on Canvas
100 x 100 x 5 cm