drawn from life

Have you ever wished to live inside a painting?

As part of an ongoing project, I am exploring our perceptions of space in a reverse process to the conventional, by painting onto real objects to create the illusion of a flat drawing. In placing them back into their original surroundings, the resulting dialogue questions our ideas of reality.

Or so I hope. I have attempted to implement the graphical style of tattoos, and was inspired by the creative process of Alexa Meade, whose work is fascinating!

So, I leave you with the thought… if you could live in any painting, which one would you choose? Why?

workmen of Brick Lane

Here are some glimpses of life in the East End of London. Some of the most vital people in our cities, the workforce, are often overlooked; their presence ignored in the great big bustle of our own lives...

stand as one

drama will chase us 

whether we want it to 

leave us alone 

or bring its fun

have its day 

when it's all over 

let us not be destroyed 

let us be

together

beauty is in the eye - or the ear or the heart -

Sometimes you don't have to look to find something beautiful, it's there in the voice of someone who understands you, it's there in a hug of someone who cares about you, and it's there everytime you breathe in the air that keeps us all alive.