Coming Together

Coming Together (2010)

jesmonite, hair

What happens when two opposing forces come together?

A sperm penetrates an ovum during fertilization and the tail tells a tale of what happened.

Acute Awareness

Acute Awareness (2010)

wood, correx, latex

Shed Skin

Shed Skin (2009)

latex

Opening of Exhibition 9th December 2009

2 is 1 (2009)
plaster, paint

Please feel free to come to the opening of my exhibition on Wednesday 9th December 2009.

Venue: Foyer of AVA Building, University of East London, Docklands Campus
DLR station: Cyprus
Start: 5.30 pm

This is a group exhibition of UEL Fine Art students. I will exhibit the above sculpture.

See you all there!

Arched Angel

"Arched Angel"
Acrylic paint, gel and feathers, 2009, 40x50 cm

Becoming Earth

"Becoming Earth"
Mixed media on canvas, 2009, 40x50cm

I am interested in gender ambiguity. In this painting, a condom becomes feminine. The question is, 'Does a condom cover masculinity or provide an inner membrane for femininity?' In this painting it becomes the fine lining between the masculine and the feminine, quite literally but also symbolically. It is what binds the two together.

"Truth is a pathless land"

"Pathless Land"

Mixed Media on cardboard, 2009, 29x29cm, framed (50x50cm)

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'The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929

when he said: "Truth is a pathless land".

Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest, or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique.'

(p. 5, "To Be Human" by Krishnamurti)

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When I heard this statement in a lecture at the Theosophical Society, London, I was inspired to produce a painting without any preconception of what I was going to do, what it would exactly depict. The only basis for the painting was that phrase by Krishnamurti that so deeply touched me. Creativity can be a pathless land at times. One is actually most creative when one lets go of any goals or pre-fabricated concepts.

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"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

(Edgar Degas)

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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."

(Jackson Pollock)

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"Each painting has its own way of evolving ...

When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself."

(William Baziotes)