Recent Work: Mapping
From Babylon to Google we see how man loves to know where he is, where he's been, and where he's going.
It may be a map to show how powerful you are or to see how close the enemy is better still show us where the treasure is buried. There are a myriad of reasons why they are created but they are all visual representations of our place in an environment. In this piece that environment is the mind.
Mind Map 2024 Watercolour and ink 22 x 15 inches on watercolour paper.











A Journey With Maps


No Man is an Island
A map of Relationship. John Donne was right but he can feel cut off from the mainland at times and art can say things that words can only stumble over, this is before the bridge was built.
watercolour and collage 2024 21 x 30 cm
Broken Heart Map
watercolour on board fragment
12 x 9 inch approx 2024
Fukushima Ghosts


Radiation Zone
The spread of radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear reactor and the unfishable waters. Disaster maps.
Japanese paper watercolour and ink 20 x 30 cm approx

Unfishable Waters
The price we pay to keep the lights on has become too high in financial and ecological terms.
The Doomsday clock is at 89 seconds to midnight.
Japanese paper watercolour and ink 20 x 30 cm approx
Common Dreads Album cover for Enter Shikari. 2009

The Split.
Fear creates barriers from Berlin to Gazza and now the Mexican border. We also create them on an individual level. This piece explores the noman's land and buffer zones we decide to make
Watercolour and Ink 30 x 20 cm approx 2024
Mapscapes
Abstract Mapscapes.
The Accidental maps.
Top: 20 x 16 inch oil and acrylic on canvas 2023/24
This canvas started life as just a palette to mix colours
over time the world appeared.
Bottom right: Watercolour 13 x 12 inch approx 2024
Bottom left: Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inch 2024



Illustrated Maps

Arcane Fragment
Illustrated Map Fragment
based on early maps of the middle ages
beautifully designed but completely inaccurate
usually copied from earlier incorrect maps.
12 x 9 inch watercolour and ink 2019
Alchemia Angliae


Subventre: Underbelly
A map of sub-culture and criminal activity.
Everything you need to be neglected by society.
Acrylic and ink on canvas 20 x 16 inch 2024
Subventre
Alchemical map of England and Wales.
Set around the time of John Dee a fantastical map of alchemy using ancient symbols and Bosch altar pieces.
22 x 15 inch watercolour 2024

The Land of Ozymandias
A land of forgotten histories.
The traces of a civilization.
Watercolour 20 x 10 inch approx 2020
Sea of Troubles
The sea of troubles and how to navigate it.
An archipelago of negative emotions.
Guide your ship carefully around the rocks of despair.
Avoid the island of worry, keep clear of the Isle of
Fear until you find yourself completely lost.
20 x 10 inch approx watercolour 2022


The Ghosts and Demons of Hokaido
Map of myths and legends of Northern Japan. 22 x 15 inch approx 2024