Me in front of Anselm Kiefer's "The High Priestess / Zweistromland" Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway.
So, here is some of my work, in no particular order. All the pieces are watercolor collage and are on the small side (I don’t think I’ve ever created anything bigger than 16 inches by 12 inches, although I'm sure the work will get bigger with time).
My work is influenced by all the experiences, impressions and so forth that I described in “Who am I?” and “How and Why” That, I suppose, would be the psychological primordial soup in which my art ferments, and from which it crawls into the world when I pick up a brush.
You don’t have to be particularly interested in art to see that my style is somewhat disparate, ranging from quite simple and abstract, to relatively tight and controlled. I think this variance has come about because I only really consider myself to have become an artist in 2016 after returning from Norway (when I rediscovered what I had lost after my childhood, an actual love for making art). Before that I was just messing about, there was no core, or gravity, to my creativity. As such, I’m still in the relatively early stages of discovering who I am as an artist (with luck I’ll be blessed with a couple more decades to work it through). That said, I am hoping that I don’t become too set in a certain style or genre, there in lies creative stagnation. I really want to continue to do what I do now, which is to move from one picture to the next without feeling that it has to look a certain way, or falling into the trap of copying myself. In short, I want to paint like I did when I was a kid.
It’s great to be so free.
My work is influenced by all the experiences, impressions and so forth that I described in “Who am I?” and “How and Why” That, I suppose, would be the psychological primordial soup in which my art ferments, and from which it crawls into the world when I pick up a brush.
You don’t have to be particularly interested in art to see that my style is somewhat disparate, ranging from quite simple and abstract, to relatively tight and controlled. I think this variance has come about because I only really consider myself to have become an artist in 2016 after returning from Norway (when I rediscovered what I had lost after my childhood, an actual love for making art). Before that I was just messing about, there was no core, or gravity, to my creativity. As such, I’m still in the relatively early stages of discovering who I am as an artist (with luck I’ll be blessed with a couple more decades to work it through). That said, I am hoping that I don’t become too set in a certain style or genre, there in lies creative stagnation. I really want to continue to do what I do now, which is to move from one picture to the next without feeling that it has to look a certain way, or falling into the trap of copying myself. In short, I want to paint like I did when I was a kid.
It’s great to be so free.
THE WORK
Safe House, 2020
Moon and Field, 2017
Primal, 2016
Before the Plow, 2017
The Magical Night, 2020
Genesis, 2019
The Forest Sleeps, 2020
It Happened Here, 2016
The Distant Isles, 2017
The Winter Comet, 2016
It's Later Than You Think, 2020
The Sun God, 2020
The Ancient Hill, 2017
Silent Night, 2020
The Fall Moon, 2020
The River of Forgetting ( Lethe ) 2020