My intention with these paintings is to suggest a new language of realist painting.Whilst they start firmly rooted in the observable world a process of shaping and manipulation a new agenda has emerged.
By collecting raw material through photography and drawing an archive of material is built over time. Living with this material in the studio starts to suggest new ways of describing the urban landscape. This could be a combination of interior, exterior and reflected space or with my most or an amalgam of disparate locations and viewpoints.
Whilst these works don’t obey the same laws of physics which govern our own world they are constructed in a very particular way. Strategies for composition and defining space are explored and manipulated.
The resultant paintings have a hallucinatory quality which is “neither here nor there"
