I make photos, drawings and sculptures. I trained as a sculptor in the UK in the 1980's. Diverse things inspire me such as:

Creating recessive space on a flat surface, mostly in drawings but also photographs.

Relationships between and within things, or rather, within objects — which can be understood to be bundles of properties.

Sinuous beauty in the living.

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 inevitably leads to the questioning of thought and the self as together they generate the world, a reality that is fragmented by petty, self-centred conflicts that grow evermore brutally competitive and chaotic. This is a malicious way to think and to behave. Why do we accept the suffering this causes? How can I reveal or reflect this self-perception? Will anybody "see it" ? Should I continue?

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 — demonstrating 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 that can be characterised, perhaps, as beautiful, at least in an aesthetic sense.

Where text (usually in a compressed or poetic form) is below an image it is there because I wish to make as clear as possible how nuanced the interpretation of images and objects can be.

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 into the nature of the self through different materials and different media; particularly the Albums titled "Self-ish", "Metaphysical" and "Death".

Any comments are welcome either below each image or via email.

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