The Great Silence is an ongoing series of works of fiction in paint. Collected images and subjects, not from real life like the sleepers, but from a more imaginative exploration of situations. All the paintings are dominated by their landscape and circumstance. Landscapes from the margins of our day to day, the underimagined spaces we glimpse from a train window, or while waiting at traffic lights, become the places where these stories play out. What has happened and what will happen merge together, often depicting the same characters, but at different moments. The figures that appear in them are half there, half just passing. They stem from places I know, from films, from imagination, and from a need to paint them. The paintings can be viewed as an event which may happen, is happening as we see it or has already passed by. I wanted them to exist in a narrative of time, but time that is not quite stopped.


The Sleepers

Sleepers was originally a collection of filled sketchbooks from my days commuting from Canterbury to London. Over five years I drew people sleeping on their journey to and from work, and filled many many sketchbooks. There are 180 drawings here. They are an intimate portrait of a private action which is utterly shared in a public space i.e the train.



Exhibitions


Art About Things - Assembly, group show, 2017, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK


The Second Experiment, solo show, 2014, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK


Vanishing Point, solo show, 2012, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK


The Great Silence, and Sleepers, solo show, 2009, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK


Invasion of the Dandelions, group show, 2008, The Caxton Contemporary Gallery, Whitstable, Kent


Contemporary Coast, group show, 2008, The Caxton Contemporary Gallery, Whitstable, Kent


Flowers, solo show, 2007, Gallery 2, Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK






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