Clifton Contemporary / December 2021
Clifton Contemporary is curated by Sarah Brown who has been promoting and supporting my work for several years now. For this latest group exhibition, she’s hung eight of my pieces throughout both of the gallery's main spaces, alongside some great works by Sir Terry Frost, RA and Albert Irvin OBE RA, to name just two. There are some beautiful smaller paintings by Ellie Preston and some sublime bronzes by Julian Cox to enjoy too.
Lino / venetian, commission for a house in Bristol
I wanted to post a few images of my Lino studies, as I’ve recently delivered a 100cm diameter ‘venetian’ edition to a collector here in Bristol, and was really pleased to receive some images of the newly installed work, a week or two back.
I drew the study after an inspirational trip to Venice, and Murano, to see some of the amazing glassworks that the Veneto is so famous for and perhaps, in particular, the work of Lino Tagliapietra, to my mind one of the most inspirational makers of the C20th.
Psyche D / EvH, commission for a house in Bristol
I drew Psyche D / EvH (event horizon) in 2017, as part of my Current at Catto show. It’s a wildly complex drawing, that freewheeled out of control as it went on.
In its initial incarnation, it was conceived as a kind of giant psychedelic Krispy Kreme doughnut, with a petal like structure containing a wholly fluid series of line drawings, that bubble and move like a 60’s oil light show, in a kind of camomile pink colour.
Looking back from this distance it was either insane or brilliantly exuberant. I’m not sure which.