my friend the slenderman Painting

born in 1963, in Cardiff Wales. He moved to Ireland in 2004.Artists Statement: I began painting in school and had my first professional commission at 15. For many years I made a living as a mural painter and working as a public artist. My work is characterized by sensitive handling of figurative subject matter with expressionist qualities of colour, viewpoints and painterly qualities; primarily I am an intuitive painter. I value the importance of passion, intuition and spontaneity, which I temper with discipline. My work reflects the passions in my life, my family, the landscape, portraiture and the painting of the figure, particularly the nude, which I regularly feature in my work. Many of my figures can be read as caught in a kind of monumental stillness, a solitary woman on a bed, figure on a beach, young people sleeping. I am influenced by a diverse range of artists such as, Edward Hopper, Turner, the Impressionists as well as the American expressionist painters, John Skelton and the Euston Road School of the 1940s and 1950s. In a world of racket and clamour my work strives to show the quiet, still moments that speak to us all.