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Conceptual painting and mixed media work - oil, acrylic, polyester glitter, glass beads, synthetic crystals, printed cotton, embroidered fabric, paper, newsprint, marker, pitt pen, cement and sand on canvas or on board.
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Paintings 1 - Flor da Pele
New Work, 2007-2008
Flor da Pele refers to the Brazilian expression "à flor da pele" which means "at the outermost layer of the skin", or literally, "at the flower of the skin" - at the layer of flesh that feels touch most intensely.
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Paintings 2 - Anti-Fashion Series
2000-2006
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Paintings have to have a beginning. The ones here start their life as a response to an image or thought, a facet of a conceptual whole that binds them together. In this series of works, fashion is being used both as the subject and as questioning of contemporary behaviour. The 'contents', be it balloons, shoes, cloth or armours, are deliberately disquieting. Their physical presence at the surface of the painting is not one of comfort. The hat eclipses the woman; we do see what she wants us to see, but this does not hold and perhaps what we are left with is an awareness of her insecurity. Again in 'Comfort and Joy', the red shoes at first gain our attention, but their elegance is replaced by the fear and pain of negotiating this particular painting surface, which is patterned with 'visual holes'. In "Hot Must Have", we sense the human presence, but the spatial relationships within the canvas negate any interaction. Colour comes forward suggesting slogans or advertisements that occupy the remaining surface. It is a void in which a shimmering ghostly figure seems to be reassured that all is just as it should be.
Just because these paintings have a beginning, this does not mean an end is essential or even preferable. All we can ask is that they 'work'.
Text by Gerry Smith.
Extract from Brazilian Knots, published in 2006 by the Brazilian Embassy in London.
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Paintings 3 - Close-Up
1997-2007
A selection from a series of paintings where the subject matter is the surface weave.
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Paintings 4 - Natural
1993-2006
A group of works exploring the artificiality of painting and the perception of naturalness.
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Paintings 5 - Quotidiano
1993-1998
Ordinary objects as contemporary icons. Sanctified chairs, safety pins, paper clips, pasta, bags, teapots, luggage, bicycle chains and other quotidian items.
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