Hello dear viewer, and welcome to
my on-line gallery page.
I am an oil painter of primarily magic realist paintings,
preferring a classical technique of painting in multiple
layers. I first began painting in late 2004 and am
self-taught.
I was born on the 14th of December 1972 in Crewe,
Cheshire. My first obsession was computer games and
for many years worked alone as a games developer.
Music is important to me, I remain an active music
composer and producer and I have designed all of the
software that forms my sound studio. I spent a long
time meditating, I did not know I was training to
become a painter then, but I was.
I prefer the classical technique of painting in multiple
layers because I think the pictures look better when
painted in this way and the quality of the result
should be paramount. The quality of the idea and emotion
(the mind and soul) of a painting is most important,
but the body and appearance is important too and a
great work must excell in both. Every grain of idea
and feeling is present in a painting painted wholly
by an artist, there are few excuses for resorting
to the hands of assistants in this modern era.
From the outset my paintings were symbolic and partly
surreal, I think the key to creativity is a balance
between the conscious and sub-conscious mind. Surreal
images are funny, dark, joyous, deep, and everything
else that life is because the brain itself operates
on such images, efficiently conveying and processing
complex ideas in the form of images. Sub-conscious
images on their own however are unguided and often
samey, so I think the intellect should lend a hand.
I start with emotion and go from there.
A good painting should be evocative, unforgettable
and beautiful. Death to the ugly, a beautiful death!
As you may expect, the few paintings here (from various
creative epochs) will be dwarfed by future masterpieces.
How could I believe otherwise! My confidence, painting
workload and stamina prevents me from saying anything
less! In the mean time, gaze at these pictures, analyze
their riddles, and with your heart hear the music
of their chromopsycology.
