A place to put artwork and things I’ve made.
Before I was a marketer, I did a few other things, including making art. Some of which I still keep going - in some ways I enjoy making things more now that I’m not trying to earn a living from them. And they can just be things I’ve made, they don’t have to be hugely meaningful. It’s ok to just enjoy making. Most of the things on this page are from a few years ago, so the photos are fairly low res.
This painting was stolen from an exhibition in Putney. The lace is an image from the Encyclopaedia of Needlework. If you see this on anyone's wall, let me know!
Inspired by Goya.
Royal Courts of Justice, drawn with various sizes of dipping pen. This was a commission for someone who vanished without paying or collecting the piece.
Hand printed self portrait with a medium format camera.
Oil on canvas
I bought some antique Polaroid Land cameras and played around with them
This unravelling ball of string also corresponds to a Rembrandt painting of a woman with a ruff collar.
This was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005. The image is of Montserrat, near Barcelona. I drew it using an antique Camera Lucida, and drew the same image 4 times, with 4 different weights of pencil, each time adjusting the height of the Camera Lucida to give this interlocking image.
Digital piece, after a visit to the Hermitage in St Petersburg.
Oil on linen
This image is also from Monserrat near Barcelona and was also stolen from an exhibition. In happier news, it was also used as a book cover for a book on Capitalist Culture that my father wrote.
Polaroid transfer
They will endure beyond our vanishing; And they will never know that we have gone. I titled this from a poem by Borges.
Hand printed self portrait taken on a medium format Yashicamat
Oil on canvas
Dipping pen drawing, Royal Courts of Justice
Oil on board.
Underwater coral. Private Collection
Oil and resin on board.
105 Colours: Atomic Me. I was looking at how many colours it took to make an image, and how you could hand paint a machine made image.
Taken with a vintage Land Camera, and the lenses I used to do my eye exercises with.
Hand painting a machine made image from an original painting by Raphael. Oil on canvas.
I was very moved by visiting a museum for the blind in Spain. This image is the Braille guide to the museum, photographed and transferred onto a flat canvas. It's gone from useful and tactile, to aesthetic but functionless.
Digital piece made after a visit to the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Manipulating a machine by hand to alter an image of an original painting.
An explosion of colour, made for a friend.
Quick self portrait - holiday in Miami.
These two large paintings were hand painted to look machine made. At an exhibition a drunk man loudly shouted that they weren't art, and I felt like that was a good rite of passage for me!