This series of works was inspired by the time I recently spent in Namibia. Like much of my work I try and touch on the mystifying paradox between the poetic and prosaic that many of us encounter in everyday life. The use of magic realism in these works allows me to take ideas out of the ordinary and imbue them with a more transcendent meaning.

I am interested in taking people out of their expected contexts, so that they no longer inhabit the social documentary realm but rather seem to float in the half-rooted, half-etheric realm of dreaming. By removing characters from their predictable environments, I find they often become emblematic of other states and feelings, rather than purely representational records of the seen and known.

THE WORKS

Oil on canvas 38 x 38cm 2009