This page shows work in progress and recently completed. In the coming year I will continue a series of paintings provisionally titled Wessex and share my progress here.
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​I consider this oil on canvas, titled Anne Rackham and completed in October 2025, to be an important milestone in my development and the first in the Wessex series. I feel it's a culmination of the themes and practices explored since around 2019 but more importantly as a signpost towards my direction of travel for the foreseeable future.
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Having seen my work hung recently, and reflecting on conversations with several people, two key things have crystallised for me:
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1. The Wessex series will be 'uber-analogue', drawing upon the unique power of the painting as a physical encounter in a non-digital space. This will mean a change from my usual graphic instincts.
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2. Neither hard-edge, geometric nor its opposite, painterly lyricism, the Wessex paintings will mine a hybrid zone between the two; as Anne Rackham does.
The paintings will contrast geometric and irregular, organic forms in ambiguous spaces. Below are examples of motifs from recent work to be developed in the Wessex paintings.
