Original artwork description:

My hero, Vincent Van Gogh, painted his sunflowers in Arles, in the South of France in 1889. I painted my Egg Flowers in Samui, in the South of Thailand in 2020.

My true passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want to create paintings which draw the viewer in, which makes them stop…and then see more than the initial work form and colour.

I have a lot of influences from Lucian Freud, Picasso to Botticelli. A few years ago, I was given a book of Botticelli's works; his use of colour instantly struck me.
Since then, I have grown bolder and more spontaneous, too, using the palette knife to build texture into my work. I like to sculpt the paints with my palette knife and feel the passion and emotion as the image takes shape on the canvas before me.

How my Egg collection came about, when I was a kid at school we would have to take our lunch box to school as there was no kitchen or cooking facilities, when the dinner bell would ring we would all sit on the floor to eat our lunch.

Almost every day I had a fried egg on rice,(we had lots of chickens) the other kids would say, ‘Ta, fried egg again you'll begin to start looking like a fried egg’.

One day I was frying an egg and thought that would make a great face…Now my Eggs are hanging on walls all over the world

COMMISSIONS:  I would be delighted to create you a unique work, whatever size you need or colour palette. 

NOTE: The images in situ are computer-generated, might not be to scale and serve for illustration purposes only.

Materials used:

Oil on canvas

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