Older Work

On the Move (1989-1996)

1994, Detail.

A series of paintings that depicts crowds of tourists, protesters or refugees. The restless searching for better places, whether of bitter necessity or simply out of curiosity, is a reality of contemporary life. View…

Roads (1996 – Present)

The Car's Point of View (3)

For years I painted road scenes from photographs shot from a moving car. These paintings show the allure of speed, colours and light of urban life, an ephemerality that is contradicted by the materiality of paint. I continue to be fascinated by this tension. View…

Trucks (2001-02)

47" x 81"/119cm x 206cm

In my paintings, the large rigs stand for the monsters that we have leashed, for the legendary beasts that used to be glimpsed at night from the safety of the village in the jungle, and described in weird and wondrous terms the next day. View…

Delivered (2004)

Delivered

I painted a life-sized truck on Tyvek paper. It measures 12 feet by 67 feet. Unlike my vague anxieties and fears that have no form, no weight or sound, a trailer truck I can see. It weighs. It rolls on huge wheels. It shines and snorts and honks and roars. It gives shape to my shapeless fears. Unlike my fears, I can paint a truck and hang it out to dry. View…

Reflections (2003 – present)

As a resource for these paintings I have used photographs that captured the interior spaces as they were reflected on the rooms’ windows in twilight. Seen from the inside out, the homes blend in with the city outside, rendering them at once secure and vulnerable. View…