artist's statement:
My major artistic focus is subversive creative expression that explores the difference between perceived reality and pre-ordained social morés. Mine is a battle with ‘normality', ‘marketability' and ‘mediocrity', which I have vowed to eradicate via my creative output. Being this much of a prick is a serious business but one that I think is worth pursuing, as a legacy. I don't think you can be a worthy creative talent and hope to sell paintings for millions or sell millions of books – the best one can hope for is a hatred by the masses, revulsion among ones peers. I aim to be one of those artists who are reviled and denounced by contemporary society so that a later generation can re-evaluate their error— that is my aim, to be discovered after my death.

about the artist
As a psycho-figurative artist I've had a series of one-man exhibitions and have illustrated extensively for the small press. My first one-man exhibition of life-size oil-on-hardboard paintings was back in 1987. I had three more one-man exhibitions after that but since the disastrous Amsterdam exhibition scheduled to spend the month at Galerie Erotique there by the train station (I had the money through the British Council, I had the publicity, I had the gallery on my side then there was a major fuck up at customs which meant I missed the exhibition window) I have not painted any new psycho-figurative artworks since. At the end of a bleak 1995, I finaly took an axe to the majority of these big paintings - very cathartic. I have concentrated my creative energy on my writing using the caveat that if 'a picture paints a thousand words' I get the equivalent of 40 new paintings per book as my sucking blanket.