UPDATED AUTUMN 2025

TAPESTRIES

American Tapestry - Psycho Two
In progress
Oil and mixed media on canvas and linen / 400cm x 135cm (Diptych)

British (indeed global) culture has been wholly subjugated in my lifetime by an over-saturation of Americana in all its many forms - cartoons, TV and film, war and the military/industrial complex, technology ad infinitum. And, in many ways, I love bits of it. But that’s not to say I can’t subvert its myriad psychoses.

Dorothy, as winged angel, betrays the myth of America (Garland was ruined by Hollywood) surrounded by Hellfire missiles and Stealth bombers with a host of cartoon characters in mock celebration. Dollar signs drones and the Space Shuttle. A Bald Eagle swoops past sequences from ‘Psycho’, as an Apache flies upwards. Comedic iconography adds a satirical twist.

Psychobabble
Oil and mixed media on canvas / 200cm x 100cm

I have a continuing fascination with the film ‘Psycho’ and Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane in particular. Oh, untimely death! The Disney characters hints at my love of the cartoon and the comic book frame (I’m from Dundee, land of Dennis and Gnasher) and its sense of suspended animation. Look away temporarily and the whole thing’s moved on.

A mixed-media piece featuring a woman's portrait with an X over her mouth, cartoon birds, and a cartoon duck holding a U.S. flag, all set against an abstract background with scribbles and paint splatters.
Mixed media artwork featuring a helicopter, Mickey Mouse, a small bird, abstract patterns, and colorful splatters and sketches.

Chinese Tapestry #1 (In progress)
Oil and mixed media on canvas / 160cm x 120cm

Kimono (In progress)
Dye, mixed media on constructed canvas garment

An all-too-rare three-dimensional piece, focusing on a kimono I designed and constructed in canvas (big up to Lynsey Colbourne). And it has a long way to go to get to where I want it to be - softly, softly and all that.

Utilising print, spray-paint, drawing and oil painting to capture embryonic narratives on constraint, bondage and servitude.

Colorful painted paper kimono with abstract floral and animal designs, featuring red, orange, pink, and black hues and the number '123' at the bottom.

Updates (Autumn 2025)

Drawing of a fish on red fabric with detailed scale and fin illustration.
Close-up of fabric with a black line drawing of a fighter jet.

Who bombed Black Bambi? (In progress)
Oil and mixed media on linen / 97cm x 77cm

Bomb Scare (In progress)
Oil and mixed media on canvas / 100cm x 70cm

Tapestry series: Blue Marion (In progress)
Oil and mixed media on linen / 120cm x 100cm

A blue-themed art mural featuring Disney characters Donald Duck and two small birds, with a portrait of a woman driving a space shuttle labeled 'NASA United States' and pixelated alien skulls in the background.

Tapestry series: Original studies
Mixed media on canvas boards / wooden panels

Triple Psycho 66cm x 46cm
Invaders 66cm x 46cm
Shoot! 180cm x 50cm

Artwork featuring three pop art portraits of women with colorful, abstract elements and black crosses over the eyes of two women, and a purple plus sign attached to the head of the leftmost portrait.
Mixed media collage including a vintage black-and-white photograph of a woman, stickers of Mickey Mouse, a line drawing of a bird, geometric patterns, and abstract scribbles on a textured background.
Street art mural featuring military helicopters, explosions, and cartoon characters, including a yellow character with black hair in a yellow background on the right side.

Tapestry series: Original sketchbook pages

Open art journal displayed on a wooden easel, featuring collaged images and mixed media with abstract and figurative elements, including a child's face, dark smudges, handwritten annotations, and oversized black curly brackets.
A black and white art piece displayed on an easel, with the left side being white with a black circular element, and the right side having a textured, distressed appearance.