Northern Grit 15

Acrylic on textured canvas board
107cm x 122cm

‘Be it art, music, poetry or inventing, it’s always been a passion to express emotions and creativity. To reach out, to survive the turmoil of being. A different perspective, see the unseen.

We chase dreams and pleasures, unaware of the smaller textures of life. Too busy to stop and breathe, we run around like ants.

Look into a mirror. A window; draw the viewer in. To see in, to see out. The glass is a wall, shatter the glass.

Intentionally unframed; a frame is four walls. Free the work, free its expression. I Look around, seek reality in the raw, unblemished and often overlooked.

Let the painting speak for itself. The world within, smaller details, texture paintings are a microcosm of our universe.

Connect and engage, the painting is an illusion, the reality I create. Everything I paint is intentional, my history, my world’.

An acrylic painting on a textured background, this painting shows a wonderful scene outside a former pub. The early morning light casts strong shadows. The simple composition, in depth gritty tones and subtle colours aim to give a tactile and engaging experience. This view was lost forever a few days later as the pub was reinvented and scraped clean.