I make photos, drawings and sculptures. I trained as a sculptor in the UK in the late 1980's. Diverse things inspire me such as creating deep recessive space on a flat surface; subtle, often ambiguous, relationships between and within objects; sinuous beauty in the living and patterns in their many forms. However, as I age, I focus more on deeper questioning or truth - What am I seeing (both psychologically and visually)? What assumptions are going unchallenged? Why do I think this results in truth? Such an approach leads to the inevitable questioning of thought and the self as together they generate the world; one that is fragmented by petty self-centred conflicts, growing evermore brutally competitive and chaotic. This is a malicious way to think and behave. Why do we accept the suffering this causes? What can I do? How can I do it?

Exploration of thought and the self is guided by my understanding of the dialogues and writings of J. Krishnamurti: an original thinker, who challenges our unquestioning acceptance of the self - our psychological centre - highlighting its primary role in the generation of conflict and suffering both internally and in the world. The self is also the source for our irrational fear of death, a stark and irrevocable fact for sure but fearing it makes no difference whatsoever, other than to increase suffering.

Although these ideas are important to me they are difficult to translate into the visual so don't "appear" in most work. The more successful work, however, does embody something that's captivating to look at and intriguing to think about. Something beautiful perhaps?

Where text is below an image it is there because I wish to make as clear as possible what the image means to me.

The Albums tab presents most of the images in rational groupings as opposed to the somewhat random Photostream. If you are interested in my artistic development the majority of the Albums groupings demonstrate the attempt to express a deep insight through different materials and different media; particularly the Albums titled "Selfish", "Metaphysical" and "Death". Any comments are welcome.

Email address (on this page) below the showcase images.