Ink Spots Collage

I see myself as an illustrator of ideas. Controlled and random chaos, humour and surprise are all merged in my works. Often appearing playful at first, I endeavour to visually express my understanding about existence in the 21st century but also includes references to the past. I aim to examine society’s lusts and the desire for fortune and fame and, consequently, to highlight our insecurities. Modern iconography is a key influence in my work, adding colour and design to stylised variations of common place images - signs, numbers, symbols, advertisements and people. Colour has always been an important feature of my work, tying together the various elements in the image. I am is drawn to artists who push the envelope, unafraid of producing works and images that may be confronting, but always thought-provoking and endeavour to incorporate similar concepts in my own work. I enjoy working with different elements and piecing them together to create some kind of logic and order. My continuing ethos is that there is a fundamental pleasure in connecting a few images together to make something that did not previously exist, believing that there is a landfill of ideas out there and a universe of nonsense that needs sorting, while, at all times, remaining allegorical. Original collage constructed on quality artcard framed ready to hang.