Painting

My paintings are fragments of unknown narratives, stories steeped in atmosphere with characters that invite the viewer to speculate and identify. Drawn out of a love of all that evokes nostalgia my work is crafted from an acute admiration of the old masters in particular Caravaggio and Rembrandt and a keen interest in cinema, philosophy and literature. The paintings themselves rarely have a definite meaning in terms of an explanation that would pin point every nuance of their being and they are certainly not illustrations, rather they are items of mystery, a craftsman's glimpse of an event frozen for eternity or a single piece of a jigsaw puzzle that sometimes contains clues or allusions to further meaning.

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