Trees, Roads and Walls
Boundaries have been a recurring subject in my work over many years. I use imagery relating to division and isolation to help navigate my response to prevailing political trends.
Trees, with their spreading roots and branches, are a subversive influence in the partitioned human landscape, rupturing pavements and breaking down walls, but they are also vulnerable. Painted over the time of the 2016 EU Referendum, the oak in A wider moat appears resilient, but its roots are slowly rotting.
Outburst (Spring 2020) 2020, Oil on linen, 76 x 101 cm
Totem 2019, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm
Island 2015, Oil on linen, 61 x 76 cm
Breach 2018, Oil on linen, 60 x 70 cm
If I can't fly 2017, Oil on linen, 70 x 60 cm (Sold)
A wider moat 2016, Oil on linen, 60 x 70 cm (Sold)
A fire in a forest 2015, Oil on linen, 66 x 86 cm
Shroud 2020, Oil on linen, 60 x 70 cm
Staying on 2010, Oil on linen, 46 x 56 cm
Staging post 2013, Oil on linen, 35 x 45 cm
Accidental tree 2014, Oil on linen, 45 x 35 cm
Meeting 2021, oil on linen, 24 x 30 cm (Sold)