Horse Bag

After graduating in Fine Art from Camberwell in 1989 I lectured in Art History at various colleges in and around London, as well as writing on art and architecture. Since returning to painting five years ago I have exhibited in open exhibitions such as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye as well as various group shows and international art fairs. I have recently been selected to exhibit in East Wing Ten at the Courtauld Institute. I now work full time in my studio in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. My recent paintings of objects in bags initially arose from an interest in scale and representation; despite being depicted exactly life size, the subjects themselves present a dislocation of scale characteristic of toys and models, ranging from enlarged insects to radically miniaturised dinosaurs. The paintings themselves are on a domestic scale; they represent illusory objects on a fictional wall and are designed to inhabit a real wall in a domestic environment. The subjects are bagged and centrally placed on a pegboard or tongue and groove background in an attempt to raise questions about the context in which they are depicted: are they presented for sale; for anthropological perusal; do they offer a glimpse