Destroyed Park (2023)
acrylic medium, permanent ink on gesso primed paper
42 x 42cm
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PARKSCAPES
A series of original artworks exploring the boundary between painting and collage.
As a creative practitioner I see my work, and perhaps more fundamentally, my self, as a product of the postmodern jungle. I am engaged in trying to reconcile a range of competing artefacts into a coherent visual language, perhaps to make sense of the confusion within and around me. To that end my principal method is collage; combining and contrasting different elements together, whether this is by using paint and paper or computer-based graphics.
This series of works grew out re-purposing some large-scale paintings on paper that I had abandoned out of sheer frustration. Because they were on paper I was able to cut and rip them into new shapes and then juxtapose materials from different paintings into abstract collages to create some unexpected relationships that were more interesting than their original sources. I then began to employ similar methods using my computer.
Original Artworks
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Broken Ocean
Abstract image, suggesting a confusion between liquid and solid state, shattered mirror melts and sprawls over noodles of street tags. Acrylic medium, permanent ink on paper, collaged on gesso-primed greyboard One-off original artwork Size is…
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Ptanga
Abstract image, suggesting a labyrinth of river deltas and graphic patterning, splurging over broken concrete reclaimed by nature. Acrylic medium, permanent ink on paper, collaged on gesso-primed greyboard One-off original artwork Size is 42 x…
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Destroyed Park
Abstract image, suggesting a turbulent landscape of fragmented baroque graffiti. The forms clash and wrestle against each other like torn messages on old advertising hoardings. Acrylic medium, permanent ink on paper, collaged on gesso-primed greyboard…
Giclée Prints Ltd editions 1 of 1
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Carlos Castaneda Experience
Giclée print of digital graphic, made from vector graphics. Limited edition of 1. The print is sized at 700 x 700mm / 27.6 x 27.6in. £350.00 Other Artworks you might be interested in click images…
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Quavarqa
Magic smoke sprawls across the lush valleys and hills. A collage of several folktales. Irrigated fields of curling symbols and hieroglyphs, their dense liquid letters suggest the password to an alternate language-land, filled with the…
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Cosmic Serpent
The ourobouros is a symbol of the cyclical nature of existence, the infinity of time, and in many cultures it is thought to originate or reside in the Milky Way. There are numerous Aboriginal myths…
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Dark River
Skeletal diagrams embedded in the mud, coagulated pathways of slime and junk. The river has become silted, lost, its sickly dark ejaculate sprawling over land. Camouflaged hunters wade waist deep into the water, dancing with…
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Labyrinth
Peeled and re-pasted billboard graphics; an assemblage of broken coral, metro-map wallpaper, pictographic lemurs, cross-sections of petrified wood, crumpled origami, photographic negatives, neon aquariums and Memphis tiling. Giclée print of digital graphic, made from vector…
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Jungle Rush
Cloud shapes are ripped into blanket of green and grey, revealing the blossoming, yet toxic, flora and fauna below. There are less geometric and glyph-based forms in this work, so it has a closer relationship…
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Spice Melange
I’m intrigued by the design processes behind military camouflage and how the resulting visual is meant to suggest environment without describing it. And whether the resulting splotches and blobs even correlate to concepts such as…
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Moctezuma
Moctezuma deliberately evokes the alien and exotic, the pulse of tropical rainforests, space age alphabets, aerial maps of floodplains, thunderclouds shifting over mountains. Patterns and logographs vanish beneath or emerge from flat explosions of colour.…
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Disoglia
The title was arrived at through instinctive image-sound association. Maybe a scrambling of “logos”, the Greek for “word”, but also used in the John’s Gospel to mean the cosmic mystery expressed as human reason, “The…
