When I’m traveling and away from my studio I use a camera as my way of ‘painting’ whilst on the move. The photographs, often mistaken as reproductions of my paintings, are signed, numbered, limited editions printed on 310gsm Hahnemühle German etching paper with archival inks.
Photographed because of their inherent painterly illusion of horizon, scape and form, these chance marks, stains, colours and textures on distressed walls and other surfaces, some of which have been partly laid down by others, by accident or with previous intent, become chimerical worlds and fictional places. The photographs, often named as where taken, further confirms things not being as they seem; pictured utopias found in often deprived but reforming locales in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Southern India, Cuba and Sri Lanka.
