Watch your Chips Mate

This is the second in my bathers series and is part of a Triptych that began with 'Ive gotta fix my tan lines', this one is probably my favourite. It captures that typical experience we've all had with the perils of the seagulls and the chips. Theres still something calming about this scene while in reality the old bloke this painting is based on did flip his lid and swear like crazy at the bird. In my mind theres an entire world of little scenes like this playing out on the cement, with salt, sun and baths. I hope i have the desire to keep doing more of these in the future. maybe i'll do something very large to illustrate what im day dreaming about.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.