Comments by Lewis Biggs

I enjoyed getting to know your one painting in the John Moores Painting Prize shortlisted exhibition. I liked it more in the TAG museum than in Powerlong. I like the painting’s beauty, which I would locate in its strangeness. It’s very much a product of the mind / emotions rather than a representation of the material world. A strong painting.

Now I see some other paintings from the same series I have a sense of how you use the presence of the human image to involve the viewer in these paintings – which are not really about those human images at all. The human presence is almost excluded. This marginalisation of ‘us’ is a powerful message (and is supported by your use of the colour black).