I'm gradually adding images of earlier as well as new work. These usually start out as Fesh Posts and are then added to bodies of work by year in Previous Posts.

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I'm currently working on:



Poker-work drawings












and a series of woodcuts






(see Woodcuts 2006).



Vanishing Point paintings, 2005 (see Vanishing Point 2005)


Map drawing, Charcoal and medium on canvas, 1991


Untitled, 1993, oil on canvas



1986, Untitled, Pastel and Watercolour on Paper



1989 Scenes from the Story of Gwion

Impasse, 2004










Impasse, 2004

These images incorporate incidents and encounters that come with being a bike rider: knowing people with only bike in common, different relations to the law; epiphanies, shifts, thoughts, memories that visit on a long ride; unwilling and forbidden passengers; still moments after bike and rider have separated.

Also the second skin: the helmet enlarges the head and obscures the face, jacket and gloves make the rider more imposing and machine-like - Darth Vader, spaceman or bank robber. Bike riding itself carries associations with mythologized historical figures: cowboys, highwaymen and knights in armour.

An impasse is a real or metaphorical place one arrives at that is the end-point of a certain trajectory but not a destination, not an end but a temporary stopping-place, a conundrum that may be productive in that it necessitates re-thinking or a change in direction.

An impasse is reached through accident or misfortune: when a bike hits the deck, a relationship founders, or when, in the unfolding of any narrative, expectations are cheated by a confounding element that, at least for the moment, seems to defy interpretation.

Woodcuts 2006.



All prints are 14.5 x 18cm, printed on fine rice paper or two-ply Chinese cotton paper.