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My First Solo Exhibition

From Friday 11th November to Sunday 13th 2022, I hosted my first solo show consisting of 17 paintings, each with their own hand-made...

The True Artist

Making things takes time and effort. More than you’d expect, probably. I am often shocked by how long things take and I think it’s partly...

Piz-Piz

I painted this in the beginning of June 2022 during an acceleration in my work both in terms of the flow with which it came out and the...

The Big Plunge

One morning, faced with the perennial question of what to paint, I did a scan of my desk to see if there were any sketches on scraps of...

Tonto: What kind of adventure to who knows where?

At a time when I was trying to work out what direction to take my work, a friend of mine whose ceramics are very successful took a look...

Holly

This is a traditional portrait style like the ones what would have been conditioned by important Kings and Queens, Statesmen, Military...

Yakuldy Spakuldy: A journey

I think something that’s hard to do when painting is to know when to stop. It’s very easy to overwork an image which risks killing the...