Second Face
Oil on Canvas
2026
40 x 25cm
A painting of a face that I drew into the steamed up glass on a window in a club in a former furniture shop in Oxford. I was visiting a friend from art school. Had a cool time painting this. The title is from the song Second Face by Saada Bonaire that I keep listening to lately. I heard it on an NTS radio show from LA called High Noon, which goes on the idea that each show is an OST for some unknown film....
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Heaven Was Wild,
2026, 68x48cm, Oil on Canvas
A painting of the River Eden, which I passed over while out cycling. The name is from a new album from Hey Colossus. I had already started painting this when the album came out - I knew the scene was in Carlisle, but had no idea what the river was called when I started. I looked it up and then I just had to call it that.
I've now painted a few simple river paintings. Not really intentionally. I didn't set out to start painting river scenes like a trad oil painter.. It just became unavoidable. They're anything but simple to paint, but they really are just simple river paintings.
#oilpaint #river #painting #landscapepainting
Face Painting,
Oil on Canvas, 2026, 40x31cm
A painting of a face that I drew in the condensation on a window. Further experiments in pictorial space. More steps towards working out the all important question about whether glass can be painted. Also, just having some fun really with processes and what can be done with them. Things like that.
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Sky Daddy
50x40cm, Oil on Canvas, 2026
A view from a plane. Clouds from above look like a dream. Capturing the weird light effects on the window. I've named it after one of the best books I've ever read, which is about someone who loves planes.
#skydaddy #painting #oiloncanvas
Stellar
Oil on Canvas, 2026, 40x31cm
Happy times and surface details. Misted windows. Getting oil paint to mostly do what I want it to do.
I bought a ticket to see Interpol today, so the name Stellar popped into my head. Stella was a diver.
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Dream Sequence, Oil on Panel, 2026, 25.5 x 25.5cm
A painting of Dune de Pilat. I liked the way the sand was towering over the forest, slowly moving over it. Such a strange place, it looked like a dream.
#landscape #painting #art
Stage 3 is coming into the final week!
Part of The Errant Collaborators (a play within a play).
Curated by @danhowardbirt at @mirror_plymouth
It's been really great to be involved in this and represent @lleprojects & @bayartcardiff and visit Plymouth a few times!
Photo 1 is Dan's poster, 2-7 are by Dom Moore, 8 - 12 are by Luke Frost.
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So High, Oil on Panel, 2025, 25.5 x 25.5cm
A painting of Dune de Pilat, the highest sand dune in Europe. I liked the way it seemed to be working its way inland, covering a forest inch by inch. Maybe one day it'll swamp Europe with its indifferent entropy.
#sand #landscape #dune
'Weirdness of the Real'
It's great to be part of this exhibition at Oriel Canfas. On until the 14th December. The theme explored in this show: an uncanny charge that emerges when reality reveals its strangeness.
Check out @orielcanfas for artist's details and opening times.
#art #exhibition
Vision Board, 42x30cm, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Manifestations of paint, a tool for visualisation.
Playing around and trying stuff.
Not sure if I like it or possibly it's veering into some area that should be off limits. But there it is.
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ChickenJoy, 2025, Oil on Panel, 25x20cm
A painting of a display at the Museum of the Home, which shows visitors a glimpse into an imagined apartment from the near future.
The apartment was completely dystopian. The environment outside (viewable through the fake windows) looked like a polluted nightmare riddled with storms. The kitchen area featured a hi-tech protein production / re-forming device, and the absent occupants of the apartment seemed to be in the process of making small chicken-like 'creatures' for dinner, presumably made from 100% mushroom protein. It was seriously weird. These 'chicken's', some of them still in their moulds, form the basis of this painting. They reminded me of the food in the Oryx and Crake books by Margaret Atwood.
#art #painting #chicken
