Exploring Underwater Emotions: Mythical Art in ChiaroscuroThe Figurative works form a pivotal body within the artist's practice, bringing the human figure into dialogue with water, architecture, and endurance. Created entirely underwater, these images extend the language of figurative painting into a submerged space where gravity, time, and control are fundamentally altered. This series was developed within a purpose built underground studio environment, where large scale spaces were transformed into flooded

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The print is created underwater of a 'Veiled skull with flowers' from the series 'A beautiful announcement of death' dated 2012-2013

the collection closes permanently

series explores themes of transformation

and transformation

they function as both independent visual studies and as archival records of a long-term exploration into the relationship between physics and photographic practice

fry - w 30-40 gms h22 x w70 x d34 mm

geranium & tansy This is done in a circular way with no carbon footprint or chemicals in the process

Central to this body of work is the butterfly's metamorphosis: a complete and irreversible transformation that unfolds through vulnerability rather than resistance

small 3  w 60 gms h28 x w28 x d95 mm

dated 2002

a species whose history of human cultivation extends back to the earliest records of civilisation