The Birds, 45 x 55cm, Acrylic on panel, 2010 

 

 Dawn in the Hinterlands - 94 x 86 cms  - Pastel on Panel- 2010

 

 

 

 
 11pm to Stonehaven - 127 x 90 cms - Acrylic on panel - 2008

 

 

 

 

Union Terrace at 3am (detail) - Acrylic on panel- 2008

Union Terrace at 3am - 74 x 98 cms - Acrylic on panel- 2008

Queen Street Church at 4am - 92 x 109cm - Chalk pastel on velour - 2007

Study for 'Venus as a boy' - 62 x 85cm - Oil on pienture d'essence - 2006

 Christina and Augustus at Dragon Hall, 2009, C-type print, edition of 10

  Union Terrace at 1am - Chalk pastel on velour - 2008 

 

Etheldra - Chalk Pastel on velour - 50 x 40cms- 2010

 

 

That's the way to do It! - etching -30 x 35cm - 2010

 

Physic! - etching - 30 x 35cm - 2010

 

Pleased as Punch - etching -2010

Study for 'The Gull' - 102 x 37cm - chalk pastel on velour- 2007

The Playroom - Chalk pastel on velour - 2008

Sirens - Chalk and charcoal on velour - 2008

 The Birds - Chalk Pastel on Velour

Sephaville - Project Statement

My intention is to introduce a series of characters, locations and motifs that create a self-contained narrative. The unfolding fables will fully exploit their visual format, providing a universal language that lies beyond the shackles of text. For example, one image may contain a foreground formation of figures that resembles a flock of birds hidden in the background of another one, thus indicating a sense of some underlying order within the world being created. Birds, nudes, harlequins, ballet dancers and night-lit cityscapes have already featured during our journey through Sephaville.

My residency at Aberdeen Arts Centre, Scotland, over summer 2007 helped to nurture these ideas. I was lucky enough to meet the folklore storyteller Stanley Robertson at The Elphinstone Institute, and to explore His Majesty's Theatre archives with the author and archivist Edi Swan, as well as seeing the art centre's own theatre and dance programme.

The city itself was also an inspiration. Although Aberdeen is in fact coastal, the neo-classic and gothic architecture that towers over the cosmopolitan population does little to suggest this to the uninitiated, rendering the oversized and over-fed herring gulls that fly between these buildings an unusual spectacle. This appealed to my interest in magical-realist literature and films such as Pans Labyrnith, Sleepy Hollow, The Shining, Perfume and The Cremaster Cycle.

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