ILLUSTRATION AND PAINTING

These drawings are me thinking about how experiences are written into our bodies.

Portraits, self-portraits, facial enhancements, etc.

Can’t stop won’t stop creating these guys. Find more in the Nifty Screens page.

Taking trust and communal experience as a starting point, these illustrations are inspired by German folk-art painting.

Made during a prolonged stay in the very Catholic country of Mexico and building on the imagery of late-renaissance European ecumenical painting, these ‘god-hand’ illustrations use text to play with the idea of creation and how one often feels about making things.

Based on the idea of free-association/automatic drawing as a tool for the expression of the sub-conscious, each of these paintings started from a unique and familiar image that was then elaborated on to form a symbol-laden or gestural finished work.

Using simplified forms and saturated color-schemes, these works employ the image of the body as encountered in museums and public art installations to create new and psychologically-rich environments.

The paintings in this series imagine plants and flowers as, either, the tools for manifesting the object of human desire or as the arbiters of reckoning with those desires.

These images depict the nouns that appeared on the front pages of newspapers, isolated from any context, and grouped in ways that might call poetic use of language.