Acrylics and gummed paper strips on canvas board, 50.7 x 67 cm, 2016

Acrylics & powder pigments on canvas, 59.5 x 59.5 cm, 2015.

Acrylics & mixed media on canvas, 59.5 x 59.5 cm, 2014.

Acrylics & powder pigments on canvas, 59.5 x 59.5 cm, 2015.

Acrylics & mixed media on canvas, 81 x 60 cm, 2012.

Inspired by German painter, Charline von Heyl, I followed her general approach by bypassing any prior planning stages plunge into the painting stage and responding directly to what was happening on canvas. I started off with strong vertical blue stripes which I then partly overpainted. Somehow a cityscape seemed to emerge from the canvas. Though using a similar process, my outcome is totally different from Von Heyl's work.

Acrylics on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, 2012.

This is a portrait of my daughter with facepaint on. It originated from a series of photographs I took in which I explored notions of skin colour and identity. I was inspired by Hans Silvester's book "Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa" in which he photographed Surma and Mursi people of East Africa's Omo valley. They elaborately paint their faces and decorate their hair.

Acrylics on paper, 85 x 60 cm, 2010.

This is the Liverpool One bus station with Albert Dock in background on a rainy early evening.

Acrylics & mixed media on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, 2013.

Acrylics & inks on canvas, 61 x 76 cm, 2013.

Painting done specifically to commemorate the 2012 Guild celebrations in Preston. I won the 1st Prize at the annual Open Art Exhibition at the Harris Museum that year. Co-incidentally (?!) the building on this painting is the Harris.

Acrylics on paper, 63 x 89 cm, 2010.

Francis Bacon's painting style was the inspiration for this painting which I made from a life model.

Acrylics on paper, 60 x 84 cm, 2010.

I have tried to capture one of those moments when urban colour, lights and reflections are at their most beautiful: on an early winter evening just after a rain shower.

Acrylics & ink on cavas, 50 x 70 cm, 2012.

This painting started off as a reworking of an existing painting of characters found in works by Edgar Allan Poe. I struggled for a long time with a very illustrative and representational interpretation then I abandoned it. A few years later I returned to totally transform it. Slight glimpses of the original underpainting still come through. The fractured targets representing my painting process here. I aimed for one thing but created another.