My Art

The above paintings were completed in 2010. They are all mixed media on canvas and the sizes vary from 100cms to 180cms. When I viewed the graffiti at Malabar I was halfway through my paintings and decided that I wanted to 'loosen up' my style.

I have only half achieved succeeding in getting to paint in a more layered and graphic style. I wanted to just slap paint on the canvas and loosley scratch marks on the surface. I wanted to layer and layer and get a transparent look with my paintings.

Time was running out and I was not happy with a lot of my paintings. So I repainted many of them and just ran out of time for my exhibition at Jackman Gallery in December 2010.

I wanted to create a relaxed feel with my work similar to the way the graffiti was applied - haphazardly but with direction and structure.

My next series of works will endeavour to create the loose graffiti mode - if it doesn't work I will go back to painting portraits!

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The Images below are mostly detail of graphics that I thought were interesting.

I love the layers and layers of marks and colours that have been painted over the years.

The splotches of paint that have been sprayed around help create a lively and energetic graphic.

Although this graffiti has been painted inside the building the light from the windows helps to create

an amazing room full of colour.

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The images above are were exterior graffiti. I photographed the large pictures then grabbed some detail pictures that appealed to me as interesting art. I walked around the whole building photographing images. There was areas that had been partly painted over then new marks and areas of colour were applied. These were the ones that interested me - I was excited to see layers and layers of paint creating wonderful 'paintings'.

I loved the use of text and flat areas of paint, then areas of crossing out images then repainting over the top. I was recalling Jean Michel Basquiat's wonderful graffiti art which has been a great influence in my own work.