A series of work using a colouring book aesthetic and the style of a children’s drawing. My original idea stemmed out of considering the nursery rhyme of Jack and Jill as a Sisyphean parable; its girl and boy protagonists forever trapped in the retelling of their downfall.
The series touches on several themes namely luck or fortune and wish for-fillment. The image of a Well is a core motif in this series. The Well was once a central part of any community and was steeped in folklore…here it is portrayed as a garden wishing well, looming on the horizons like a new church…for dreams and wishes…less for the life sustaining H20. .
Oil on canvas
140cmx210cm
150cmx100cm
oil on canvas
2024
Oil on canvas
160cmx160cm
2021
Oil on canvas
100cmx150cm
2021
Oil on canvas
100cmx150cm
2021
150cmx160cm
oil on canvas
2021
Oil on canvas
220cmx160cm
2022
210cmx140cm
Oil on canvas
2022
A staple of colouring books and kitsch mantle piece statues,
An image born of Victorian art that romanticised the orphan child, the child with a tear rolling down its cheek, the vagrant child on the dusty road with a bindlestiff full of dreams.
Mixed media on paper
2021
Mixed media on paper
85cmx120cm
2020
Oil on canvas
210cmx140cm
2022
Acrylic on paper
120cmx160cm
2022
Oil on canvas
170cmx130cm
2021
Oil on canvas
170cmx130cm
2009
ink
A3
2012
210cmx160cm
Oil on canvas
2022
When i Grow up series: No.1 ‘I want to Live in The Park’
Oil on canvas
97cmx133cm
Oil on paper
80cmx120cm
2022
85cmx120cm
oil on paper
2021
Acrylic on paper
85cmx120cm
2020