Recently, I have been thinking a lot about masculinity and the imagery associated with manliness. I have also been thinking about the nude body, and life drawing, and the strange thing that happens when you look at a naked person in an art class setting, and you see the body as an assemblage of shapes, volumes, shade values, colour tones. In an art class setting, the nude body is de-sexualised and de-mystified. In turn, it’s like we are given permission to look unabashedly, to stare even, but that looking and staring is also a kind of consumption, a kind of digestion, before re-presenting on paper or canvas.

How does social media impact the art I make?  This is a question that has struck me several times recently, and I still struggle with it occasionally. It is also a point that I feel sometimes hinders my own creativity and occasionally limits my expression. Though perhaps this feeling of self-limitation has more to do with my own opinions about the work I do, rather than the channels on which I choose to disseminate my work on. 

As a starting point for this blog, I thought it might be interesting to introduce myself to the world, so you can get an idea of who is making the art on this site. Maybe it’s not interesting though, but it might provide more information about the work!