EXHIBITION OF CURRENT WORK 2017

The next chapter is coming up!! 
I have been working on a lot of new stuff for this Exhibition so expect to see flocked 'Tommy Guns', large scale screen printed Subutteo figures, collaged Airfix decals and some chrome!!!! Hopefully that's whetted your appetite. For this show I am sharing a great space in Margate's Old Town with a good friend of mine, Paul Atkins. I haven't shared an exhibition space with another artist for some time 

Most of the work I am exhibiting is recent but there will be a few little gems from previous shows. 

The flocked pewter guns nearly ready.

The work has continued to evolve through memories  and reflection. By assimilating other experiences a symbiotic relationship develops; image, object and memory; multiplicity, variety and inclusion. all this becomes embroiled in the 'creative soup'.

 I am still constantly stimulated by the joy of working with various materials and the freedom to move between media and methods. The culmination of their usage ultimately becomes the physical realisation of the image.

After the last exhibition - crikey, 2014!!!! - I began working with some Decal transfers from  plastic model kits. I have always found them quite beautiful and the amount of detail and clarity of colour really seductive. I developed the idea of trying to re create the shape of the object- obviously in my case a spitfire - just using various decals from different kits. 
The selection of the decals began in a very arbitrary way but as the image evolved the transfers started to develop their own graphic language. it wasn't long before a dialogue developed and the selection process became so much more systematic.

A 1943 water bottle, cleaned and prepped ready for chroming

The decals, in their un-used state provide their own graphic language. When taken out of  the context of their original use and subverted, a graphic conversation ensues, creating juxtapositions and synergies that combine to create the image.

This is now an on going project and I have decided to work on images of the models that I constructed as a child - it could take some time! - It is these images that hold the most nostalgic and poignant memories.

each time I approach a new subject more memories come flooding back which ultimately dictates how the next image evolves.

' Fury'

The creative process thus becomes natural / organic but at the same time reactive and responsive.

'Memphis Belle'