My recent landscape, and figure in landscape work, has been focused on the significance of location, my family history, folk narrative and social history through traditional genres and techniques. It is extending the work I have done with group figurative compositions in the series "Groupthink" and "Fragmented Values: Compulsive Lives". It explores the places associated with the stories I have explored in the two previous series. Now have become fascinated with how places of origin, their historical/ socio-political conditions shape individuals of a family lineage and their communities. My studio research has evolved to embrace the concept of totalized time and the stratification of memory and lends itself to the historical references I use in my landscape paintings, creating a mixture of philosophical and ideological threads through time. My painting technique, having evolved from linear expressionist landscape paintings in the 1990s to montaged composition imagery of family and social history in Alkyd mediums in the early 2000s. This eventually developed into my recent traditional solvent-free oil painting processes used by the Baroque masters, C19th Romanticists and Pre-Raphaelites.
“Shipwrecking”
“Prinsengracht 1982”
“From a Dark Place”
