Although the work is personal, themes of friendship, mortality, hope, violence and courage run through an opus which brims with fun and borders on mythological. “Without painting I would go potty, so primarily my work is a fundamental attempt to survive and hold myself together. On top of that, there is a visual mapping of my psyche which adds a depth and universality to what I present.” 

His recent professional transition from working to commission (portraits, dog portraits, cycling reportage) into the limitless world of the imagination, ‘working from within’, coincides with a three year course of psychodynamic psychotherapy (the couch one). This invaluable psychological education has armed him with a confidence to express the ongoings that take place at the farther reaches of his psyche and it is exactly where a lot of inspiration is pulled from. Fittingly, there is a psychoanalytical language running through the work; multiple warring selves, lurking beasts, the vast unknowable sea of consciousness… “I am presenting something raw which is guided not by rationality but by feeling. I don’t know exactly what I’m doing. The art is the view from a cockpit of a rocket-ship flying into outer-space whereas me trying to ‘understand it’ is the man standing on earth trying to see the view through the windscreen of the spaceship. Painting and drawing is how I process life and try to make sense of what is going on by going into outer-space. The paintings are what I bring back from my adventures into the unknown.”