Paintings
2018
Red Wine, paint and ink on heavy watercolour paper on birch plywood, 3ft x 4ft

1 / 8

Francis in Exctacy (after El Greco)

2 / 8

Bunny Girl No.1 (after Matisse)

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Bunny Girl No.2

4 / 8

Paul Fed by The Raven (after Il Guercino)

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Mother and Child

6 / 8

Seated Woman (after Picasso)

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Big Bird

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Bad Boy

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These large format paintings are not strictly a series but were made alongside each other. Each evolved over around 8 moths. Starting with the chance action of spattered red wine, the surfaces were then reworked through a series of self-sabotages and rescues, evolving the images in a continual game of consequences.

The resulting characters developed into transpositions of classical paintings (El Greco's St Francis, Barbieri's St Paul) mis-remembered and confused with contemporary cartoon motifs and elements of modernist paintings history. The result is a sort of schitzo-painting, hovering between meaning and absurdity, straddling, decorations and perversion, grotesqueness and comedy.