title. Don't Blink Twice

If artists were good with words, they would be authors, not printmakers, sculptors or painters, so trying to explain your work becomes a struggle to replace images with text and is usually done clumsily. Having said that I will try to give some insight into my work without over explanation or becoming boringly didactic.

I enjoy making work that entertains both the eye and the mind. I often use the strategy of combining two or more unrelated images within the same frame forcing an unusual relationship between them in the hope that this coincidence will spark some sort of emotive response in the viewer.

The title of this exhibition Don’t Blink Twice, (or you might miss it) refers to those moments fleetingly glimpsed, that niggling something that slid briefly behind the inside of your eyes and disappeared somewhere down the back of your brain.

When provided a with visual stimulus everyone interprets that thing differently based on their own personal life experience. That for me provides the delight in creating art, I have absolutely no wish to have my audience share exactly same experience but rather that they enjoy the work in a uniquely personal way.

I’m also interested in the way the medium the work is made from influences the viewers perception, to this end I have recently been encasing my work with epoxy resin as a means of seducing the eye. This in conjunction with my interest in popular culture combined with my fascination of modern industrial materials becomes the basis of my practice.