Paintings hung in a sunlit room with two armchairs

The Beginning of Everything Again

Paintings, drawings and prints, 2020–2026
Private view, 2 October 2026

In 2020 I began focusing on painting, drawing and image-making again. This exhibition brought together a selection of the work made since, and traced how each body of work grew out of the last.

The evening

Guests in the kitchen at the private view

David Pharo giving a talk about the work

Guests seen through a doorway, with paintings on the walls beyond

The Displaced hung above An Ordinary Magic

A guest in front of Gradient Collapse and On To The Unknown

The room full of guests during the evening

Guests in front of Enharmonic and Gradient Collapse

Magnetic Memories screen prints hung on bookshelves

Paintings

Shown to relative scale.

Friendly Futures

Enharmonic, Gradient Collapse and On To The Unknown are the first paintings in Friendly Futures, a new figurative series. More paintings are planned and in progress, and I'll share a fuller introduction to the series online in the coming weeks.

Enharmonic, 60 by 90 cm, 2026 — **Enharmonic**60 × 90 cm, 2026

Gradient Collapse, 60 by 90 cm, 2026 — **Gradient Collapse**60 × 90 cm, 2026

On To The Unknown, 60 by 90 cm, 2026 — **On To The Unknown**60 × 90 cm, 2026

Frontier, 76 by 102 cm, 2026 — **Frontier**76 × 102 cm, 2026

An Ordinary Magic, 41 by 51 cm, 2026 — **An Ordinary Magic**41 × 51 cm, 2026

Neon Abstracts

These paintings are intentionally not of things but about something. Making them, I wanted to force myself to stay in the moment, responding to each colour, mark and indelible decision as it happened. The journey to a finished composition is written into its surface: each painting telling the visual story of its own creation.

The titles belong to that process. Each is formed from the initials of a phrase that kept returning while I worked: a memory, a place, a thought I couldn't shake. They meant something to me in the studio, but they aren't clues to be solved. Once finished, a painting stands on its own, and what you bring to it matters as much as anything I put there.