We Are Always In Our Own Company
A reflective piece about being at peace with oneself after many years of self-destruction: the newspaper has a small self-portrait on the cover. We are always in our own company.
Read MoreLegless
A surreal self-portrait from days when alcohol held its grip.
Read MoreSisters
A painting of my Mum and Aunt having a good old chinwag, the smiley Bull terrier makes up the composition. Sadly my mum and my Aunt passed away, this piece is a nice reminder and keepsake of good times past.
Read MoreMichael
This painting was based on a weird dream featuring the character “Michael” from the film “Ryan’s Daughter” confronting the police in a weird Karate Kid fashion…very strange but I had to paint it.
Read MoreLil’ Devil
Based on the media/societies perception of a whole cross-section of dogs and labeling them “Devil dogs,” etc. mainly based on how they look. In the UK, the police were seizing family pets purely because they looked a certain way.
Read MoreLobster
A sunburnt lad shares his wisdom with his furry friend.
Read More2 Dolls Heads And A Bulldog
V
The precursor to the “Brighton bullseye” painting. A fusion of Rock n Roll iconography dwarfed by the child’s security dogs, no ones going to pinch his Gibson.
Read MoreA.C.A.B.
In my hometown in South Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s, amidst the chaos of the Miners strikes, you would often see the phrase A.C.A.B (All coppers are bastards) scrawled on walls and such. A release of tension from a community woefully forgotten at the time.
Read MoreGestate
Featuring my own Staffordshire bull terrier, in the painting the pair are both pregnant and single and both vilified by a societal view bolstered by the media in the UK at the time of what was called the “Chav” culture.
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