Transient Nature
This body of work emerges from a deeply personal impulse to find beauty in what is cast aside, each piece, a meditation on loss, transformation, and quiet endurance. The remains of small animals, rendered with intimacy and care, echo the fragility of life and the traces it leaves behind. The decision to use reclaimed wood as a substrate for some of this work, is both practical and symbolic, offering a second life to forgotten materials, much like the creatures portrayed.
I also sometimes attempt to highlight the delicate balance between life and death and therefore throw the transient nature of our existence into sharp relief. There is an undercurrent of pathos present in my work, which I feel conveys a certain sensibility and reflects our preoccupation with the need to find meaning in our lives before facing the inevitability of death.
Flown
79cm x 130cm - oil on handmade scaffold board panel
Oil on wood painting of the skeleton of an unidentified sea bird.
This painting was selected for the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition in 2016, at the Mall Galleries in London.
Chosen from 3,828 entries by 1,973 artists across 29 European countries, it was recognised by a distinguished panel including Emma Crichton-Miller (journalist), David Dawson (artist, writer, and photographer), Dr Arturo Galansino (Director General, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence), Tim Knox (Director, Fitzwilliam Museum), and Lewis McNaught (Director, Mall Galleries).
Life-Form
Oil on Oriented Strand Board panel, depicting the shattered skull of a wild deer, with the gun-shot hole that killed it being central to the image.
70cm x 100cm - oil on OSB panel
Omega 3
Oil on Oriented Strand Board panel, depicting the interesting texture and iridescent vibrance of freshly caught fish.
60cm x 80cm - oil on OSB panel
Angleshade
This is a highly detailed digital, hand-drawn illustration of an expired, Angleshade moth, rendered in ArtRage6 using a digital drawing tablet and stylus.
Created at 29.7cm x 42cm at 300dpi
Shown at lower resolution to avoid right-click downloads.
Spindle
This is a highly detailed digital, hand-drawn illustration of a preserved brown spider specimen, under the microscope. rendered in ArtRage6 using a digital drawing tablet and stylus.
Created at 29.7cm x 42cm at 300dpi
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Moon Dance
This is an original charcoal drawing depicting two expired moths, turned toward each other as if dancing in flight, by the light of the moon.
29.7cm x 42cm - Charcoal on paper
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