The Hive Artwork

Ive come a long way since this first solo collection, my art toured Japan for 5 years from I wrote this! I ended up joining the prestigious United Arts Club in Dublin (founded by Poet Yeats and Countess Markievicz). 10 years of tumultuous Art collaboration with Kel1st (just google it!) Calligraphy and Graffiti Fusion! The chance to work with some of the best composers in London West End, American Punk, Classic Chinese Harp Virtuosos, Middle Eastern Violin Virtuoso, Liverpool Punk Rock star etc.... The Art has taken me on a wild ride! I updated today in 2022 because I just finished presenting my Art to United Nations for World Oceans Day 2022! Looking back to where it all started below: The Accidental Orient collection was inspired by 3 years in the far East (visits to Bhutan, Nepal, India, Tibet & Western China). With it I began to explore the interface between painting/embroidery and the most valuable commodity to the ancient kingdoms "Silk". Accidental Orient collection became the basis of my Solo show at Edinburgh Art festival titled "Love without a Heart" with Tracy Emin Heading the 2008 Festival and Glenmorangie Brewery sponsoring my solo show. My Limited Variable Print edition "Floating; The price of prosperity" explores an underlying fusion of Egyptian & Chinese concepts of Wealth, was used for the Best of Modern China, pre-Olympic ChinaNow promotion in 2008. "Eventually we will all be Middleclass?" was a Graffiti-fusion project where we sprayed ironically in Surrey (the richest county in the UK) challenging issues of Money & Class. It was exhibited at Climate Forum in Copenhagen during COP15 United Nations Climate Change Summit. This lead to the month long Liverpool + London collaboration with Team Robbo in August 2012. A recent piece of East-west punk inspired fusion ended up as the first permanent installation for the future (to be rebuilt) Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan.(Part of a 370 piece postcard/art collection) It is currently touring Northwestern Japan & Tokyo sponsored by the Japanese Embassy & British chamber of commerce.