Colour, surface pattern and painterly rhythm is ultimately what I love about painting. For me elemental colour and detail are paramount to the process.  

 

My current series of paintings are a mixture of scientific human endeavour factual and fictional, challenging nature, exploration, and the pioneering spirit and heroism of man. Drawing inspiration from the stuff of dreams and fantasies the paintings celebrate the colour and dynamism of conquering space, both large and small, and the harnessing of untested technologies.

 

The interest in astronauts began during my degree at Northumbria University in Newcastle in 1999. It was the 30th anniversary of the moon landings. The fizz and crackle in the TV transmissions from those 50s and 60s documentaries, and the stillness and distortion of the translated computerised images, all influenced my application of paint and mark making. Over the last 10 years I have used colour and form to capture that fleeting moment in time, which can influence and make history, or just as easily be forgotten and lost in a instant.