‘The Power of Love’ is my classic interpretation of the enchanting ‘Beauty and the Beast’ of which I have created two previous pieces. ‘Marry Me Bitch!’ which still makes me laugh when I hear people order it by title, and a ‘Love Knows No Bounds’ piece entitled ‘’We Are Together Now’. It is the perfect story to suit my love for darkness and light and exploring the depths that people go to in the name of love. Roses have been used throughout my work, both digitally and physically and the plan was to focus on this for this third instalment. 

However, the plan initially and for some time before was to create a scene within the ‘Beasts’ rose garden, the potential for beauty is huge and I know how it would look. Yet for me personally at this point in time, I need to really challenge myself, to distract and to hopefully reach new levels through the need to consume myself in my work. So, for this reason alone I opted to keep that idea locked up and instead look to create something that was different from what people may expect. 

To achieve this, it was all about composition and introducing a surreal, fantasy-like quality to hopefully provoke a ‘bloody hell I wasn’t expecting that’ reaction. As an artist, you shouldn’t ever rest on your laurels or become formulaic – I hope you can see that I strive to evolve and learn through listening. I think this is why this collection has smashed me to bits through the intensity that I have put in. I need it, you deserve it, so it’s simple. 

‘The Power of Love’ positions you stood on a clifftop looking down at this incredible landscape/seascape (is that even a thing?!) you know what I mean anyway! The composition is done in this way to get you involved as I’m sure you can relate to the concept in some fashion. The initial image that inspired what you now see was showing a rock at a much smaller scale, I saw intrigue in changing this, so it became huge. Ripples then become powerful waves; you see where I’m going with this? The castle and the galleon that would typically dominate are dwarfed by the solid rock that stands strong against the ever-flowing tides and waves that roll and crash into its surface. 

This came together so well and without stress, it was exciting and exactly how I wanted it to evolve. Then my attention turned to the sea and the symbolic rose. I strove to create them in a way that they resembled sea creature type objects that rose upwards and broke the surface, almost as a show of force and powerful gesture. There are ones that look withered and faded in contrast to others that shine bright and have risen above the waves. Technically this was tough and I’m glad it was. The end results are so pleasing, and I feel that it really adds to this surreal quality that I have pushed for. What do you think? 

A much earlier artwork entitled ‘My Spirit Will Live On’ featured a face in the rock and I still love hearing how you have only just discovered it. As a child I always remember trying to catch the right angle as we drove past a rock in Menorca where you could see a blatant Red Indian for a split second. Maybe that is where this has all come from? So maybe there are more to find, that links the ‘Storyteller’ and ‘Love Knows No Bounds’ pieces together beautifully. As soon as you see it and see the connection, it changes everything.

The overriding purpose for this piece is to acknowledge the lengths that one goes for love and the power that one’s love for another can hold. This play on scale and perspective acknowledges this. It is so much more than a pretty picture although you are free to simply enjoy it as that, but if I know my collectors, I am pretty sure that you will relate to it for many a reason and I look forward to hearing what it means to you.

I hope you love this artwork and what it conveys and means to you. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

‘The Power of Love’ is my classic interpretation of the enchanting ‘Beauty and the Beast’ of which I have created two previous pieces. ‘Marry Me Bitch!’ which still makes me laugh when I hear people order it by title, and a ‘Love Knows No Bounds’ piece entitled ‘’We Are Together Now’. It is the perfect story to suit my love for darkness and light and exploring the depths that people go to in the name of love. Roses have been used throughout my work, both digitally and physically and the plan was to focus on this for this third instalment. 

However, the plan initially and for some time before was to create a scene within the ‘Beasts’ rose garden, the potential for beauty is huge and I know how it would look. Yet for me personally at this point in time, I need to really challenge myself, to distract and to hopefully reach new levels through the need to consume myself in my work. So, for this reason alone I opted to keep that idea locked up and instead look to create something that was different from what people may expect.

To achieve this, it was all about composition and introducing a surreal, fantasy-like quality to hopefully provoke a ‘bloody hell I wasn’t expecting that’ reaction. As an artist, you shouldn’t ever rest on your laurels or become formulaic – I hope you can see that I strive to evolve and learn through listening. I think this is why this collection has smashed me to bits through the intensity that I have put in. I need it, you deserve it, so it’s simple. 

‘The Power of Love’ positions you stood on a clifftop looking down at this incredible landscape/seascape (is that even a thing?!) you know what I mean anyway! The composition is done in this way to get you involved as I’m sure you can relate to the concept in some fashion. The initial image that inspired what you now see was showing a rock at a much smaller scale, I saw intrigue in changing this, so it became huge. Ripples then become powerful waves; you see where I’m going with this? The castle and the galleon that would typically dominate are dwarfed by the solid rock that stands strong against the ever-flowing tides and waves that roll and crash into its surface.

This came together so well and without stress, it was exciting and exactly how I wanted it to evolve. Then my attention turned to the sea and the symbolic rose. I strove to create them in a way that they resembled sea creature type objects that rose upwards and broke the surface, almost as a show of force and powerful gesture. There are ones that look withered and faded in contrast to others that shine bright and have risen above the waves. Technically this was tough and I’m glad it was. The end results are so pleasing, and I feel that it really adds to this surreal quality that I have pushed for. What do you think? 

A much earlier artwork entitled ‘My Spirit Will Live On’ featured a face in the rock and I still love hearing how you have only just discovered it. As a child I always remember trying to catch the right angle as we drove past a rock in Menorca where you could see a blatant Red Indian for a split second. Maybe that is where this has all come from? So maybe there are more to find, that links the ‘Storyteller’ and ‘Love Knows No Bounds’ pieces together beautifully. As soon as you see it and see the connection, it changes everything.

The overriding purpose for this piece is to acknowledge the lengths that one goes for love and the power that one’s love for another can hold. This play on scale and perspective acknowledges this. It is so much more than a pretty picture although you are free to simply enjoy it as that, but if I know my collectors, I am pretty sure that you will relate to it for many a reason and I look forward to hearing what it means to you.

I hope you love this artwork and what it conveys and means to you. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Bloody hell have I loved every single minute of this one! Of the scene pieces, I had left this until last to create and for good reason. Creating ‘Lithium’ has been many intense months that takes a big toll emotionally and physically, one piece straight into another and it’s been full on to say the least. No violins needed here, there are much, much harder things to do for a living! What I mean though is that you have to really make sure that you are in the correct mindset and also that you have enough time to do justice to something so cherished.

For me there are only really two options for a ‘Fawlty Towers’ piece in my style. It’s either inside the hotel lobby or outside in front of the building and I promise you that I will tackle both! You can easily choose a route for many a reason, but I was adamant that I wanted to showcase the iconic hotel exterior this time. I love a challenge! 2023 has always been about growth but I never thought I would be building a hotel before I’ve even managed a summer holiday!

When you tackle a much earlier subject, before the era of high-resolution images, it can be difficult at the point of research to get the detail that you need as so many photos and videos are of such poor quality compared to the resolution that I work to here. Combine that with the fact that the bloody hotel had a devastating fire, lost its roof, and then was demolished certainly added to the challenge.

Undeterred, I was doing it! So, I chose to leave it until immediately after a short trip to Menorca to tackle it and I must say that was a great decision. With some buildings, I work with existing imagery and rework, for this it was from scratch. Everything started from nothing, building from textures and random details to create what you now see. It took an age; it was a real test but if you spot any imperfections just blame it on O’Reilly!

Speaking of the little feck! The fact that the hotel fell victim to a fire both in the series and in real life and that it needed to be rebuilt, allowed me to link this perfectly with Cybil’s’ favourite builder and set the scene at the point where works were being undertaken by O’Reilly. Has he been given one last try, has Cybil found faith or has Basil told another porky? The hotel looks majestic! Uh oh! Look a little closer and cracks are starting to form, oh hang on, what’s that on the roof? Fire, FFF Fire, FIRE!!!!!! See what I did there?

The relief when the hotel itself was built was massive, to see it come together like that was so pleasing and to add my own take on it made it even sweeter. Hopefully worth more than one star surely?! Everyone has their favourite moment or two from the sitcom, all of the characters are amazing but it for me it is Basil Fawlty, what an absolute lunatic! That scene with the branch and his car is just epic and you know it doesn’t take much for me to find space for a car within a scene so that was always going in, the duck sat in the trifle was a moment of randomness that comes from being engrossed in that mindset. It is the best of British comedy and I have further showcased this by the choice of colour for O’Reilly’s van. Combine the two (the car not the duck!) with the crisp white walls and there’s the Union Jack link. Clever eh! They don’t teach you that in a booooook! 

I will leave you to seek out and interpret everything, brilliant British storytelling at its best – and mine isn’t too bad, I guess! In all seriousness, we probably all know someone who used to laugh their heads off whilst watching Fawlty Towers and we wish that we could hear that once more, so I hope that this piece helps to bring those memories flooding back.

Oh, and I DID mention it, but I think I got away with it!

Bloody hell have I loved every single minute of this one! Of the scene pieces, I had left this until last to create and for good reason. Creating ‘Lithium’ has been many intense months that takes a big toll emotionally and physically, one piece straight into another and it’s been full on to say the least. No violins needed here, there are much, much harder things to do for a living! What I mean though is that you have to really make sure that you are in the correct mindset and also that you have enough time to do justice to something so cherished.

For me there are only really two options for a ‘Fawlty Towers’ piece in my style. It’s either inside the hotel lobby or outside in front of the building and I promise you that I will tackle both! You can easily choose a route for many a reason, but I was adamant that I wanted to showcase the iconic hotel exterior this time. I love a challenge! 2023 has always been about growth but I never thought I would be building a hotel before I’ve even managed a summer holiday!

When you tackle a much earlier subject, before the era of high-resolution images, it can be difficult at the point of research to get the detail that you need as so many photos and videos are of such poor quality compared to the resolution that I work to here. Combine that with the fact that the bloody hotel had a devastating fire, lost its roof, and then was demolished certainly added to the challenge.

Undeterred, I was doing it! So, I chose to leave it until immediately after a short trip to Menorca to tackle it and I must say that was a great decision. With some buildings, I work with existing imagery and rework, for this it was from scratch. Everything started from nothing, building from textures and random details to create what you now see. It took an age; it was a real test but if you spot any imperfections just blame it on O’Reilly!

Speaking of the little feck! The fact that the hotel fell victim to a fire both in the series and in real life and that it needed to be rebuilt, allowed me to link this perfectly with Cybil’s’ favourite builder and set the scene at the point where works were being undertaken by O’Reilly. Has he been given one last try, has Cybil found faith or has Basil told another porky? The hotel looks majestic! Uh oh! Look a little closer and cracks are starting to form, oh hang on, what’s that on the roof? Fire, FFF Fire, FIRE!!!!!! See what I did there?

The relief when the hotel itself was built was massive, to see it come together like that was so pleasing and to add my own take on it made it even sweeter. Hopefully worth more than one star surely?! Everyone has their favourite moment or two from the sitcom, all of the characters are amazing but it for me it is Basil Fawlty, what an absolute lunatic! That scene with the branch and his car is just epic and you know it doesn’t take much for me to find space for a car within a scene so that was always going in, the duck sat in the trifle was a moment of randomness that comes from being engrossed in that mindset. It is the best of British comedy and I have further showcased this by the choice of colour for O’Reilly’s van. Combine the two (the car not the duck!) with the crisp white walls and there’s the Union Jack link. Clever eh! They don’t teach you that in a booooook! 

I will leave you to seek out and interpret everything, brilliant British storytelling at its best – and mine isn’t too bad, I guess! In all seriousness, we probably all know someone who used to laugh their heads off whilst watching Fawlty Towers and we wish that we could hear that once more, so I hope that this piece helps to bring those memories flooding back.

Oh, and I DID mention it, but I think I got away with it!

Bloody hell have I loved every single minute of this one! Of the scene pieces, I had left this until last to create and for good reason. Creating ‘Lithium’ has been many intense months that takes a big toll emotionally and physically, one piece straight into another and it’s been full on to say the least. No violins needed here, there are much, much harder things to do for a living! What I mean though is that you have to really make sure that you are in the correct mindset and also that you have enough time to do justice to something so cherished.

For me there are only really two options for a ‘Fawlty Towers’ piece in my style. It’s either inside the hotel lobby or outside in front of the building and I promise you that I will tackle both! You can easily choose a route for many a reason, but I was adamant that I wanted to showcase the iconic hotel exterior this time. I love a challenge! 2023 has always been about growth but I never thought I would be building a hotel before I’ve even managed a summer holiday!

When you tackle a much earlier subject, before the era of high-resolution images, it can be difficult at the point of research to get the detail that you need as so many photos and videos are of such poor quality compared to the resolution that I work to here. Combine that with the fact that the bloody hotel had a devastating fire, lost its roof, and then was demolished certainly added to the challenge.

Undeterred, I was doing it! So, I chose to leave it until immediately after a short trip to Menorca to tackle it and I must say that was a great decision. With some buildings, I work with existing imagery and rework, for this it was from scratch. Everything started from nothing, building from textures and random details to create what you now see. It took an age; it was a real test but if you spot any imperfections just blame it on O’Reilly!

Speaking of the little feck! The fact that the hotel fell victim to a fire both in the series and in real life and that it needed to be rebuilt, allowed me to link this perfectly with Cybil’s’ favourite builder and set the scene at the point where works were being undertaken by O’Reilly. Has he been given one last try, has Cybil found faith or has Basil told another porky? The hotel looks majestic! Uh oh! Look a little closer and cracks are starting to form, oh hang on, what’s that on the roof? Fire, FFF Fire, FIRE!!!!!! See what I did there?

The relief when the hotel itself was built was massive, to see it come together like that was so pleasing and to add my own take on it made it even sweeter. Hopefully worth more than one star surely?! Everyone has their favourite moment or two from the sitcom, all of the characters are amazing but it for me it is Basil Fawlty, what an absolute lunatic! That scene with the branch and his car is just epic and you know it doesn’t take much for me to find space for a car within a scene so that was always going in, the duck sat in the trifle was a moment of randomness that comes from being engrossed in that mindset. It is the best of British comedy and I have further showcased this by the choice of colour for O’Reilly’s van. Combine the two (the car not the duck!) with the crisp white walls and there’s the Union Jack link. Clever eh! They don’t teach you that in a booooook! 

I will leave you to seek out and interpret everything, brilliant British storytelling at its best – and mine isn’t too bad, I guess! In all seriousness, we probably all know someone who used to laugh their heads off whilst watching Fawlty Towers and we wish that we could hear that once more, so I hope that this piece helps to bring those memories flooding back.

Oh, and I DID mention it, but I think I got away with it!