Sin City Painting

My work explores areas of conflict through a variety of content and visual languages, exploring themes of symbolism, signs and the everyday commercial expansion of visual imagery; highlighting the tendency for the absurd, the detachment of meaning, and the contradictory nature of these visual codes which begin to fold in on themselves. I concentrate on the play of appearances and the blurring of boundaries between various visual languages, through the perception of colour, objects, forms and established histories of painting. At present, I am synthesizing abstraction and figuration and compounding anachronistic languages of painting, particularly with a purpose of emphasizing and amplifying qualities that seduce and intensify the visual senses. I employ visual formats such as photorealism, geometric form and highly saturated values of colour, using various processes, including photography, digital manipulation, oil and various painting techniques and media.