'It's Where I Look...

It's How I See...

Their World, My World, The World'.

                                   - Eric Fischl


I am an artist working primarily in oil on canvas or linen, with a practice underpinned by drawing. My subject has always been figurative and explores the possibilities of voyeuristic portraiture in a contemporary society. Working primarily from found sources, drawing, snapshot photography and discarded imagery, my paintings intend to decipher the preconceptions we hold about traditional uses of portraiture in contemporary art.

Through concentrating on the importance of the unnoticed mundane, my work becomes an exploration of the fundamental parts of our daily routines which underpin the constant search for the unknown in the already heavily discovered world we live in. I continue to question why the images and stories that dominate our attention so regularly are that of the spectacular, not the unspectacular, when what relates to the majority is those unspectacular moments that go unnoticed and yet remain an intrinsic part of our lives.

Currently so much of what is relevant, what is most important to our daily lives, goes unnoticed and it is this ignorance, which I find most interesting. My paintings intend to slow down the process of looking by exploiting the impressionable nature of oil paint.