Out of Chaos Archive

For over 20 years I built a career as a wildlife and portrait painter known for my traditional realist style. Working in pastel or oil, I always knew what my subject would be and how it would look once completed. It was a well practised skill with predictable outcomes.

In 2020 I moved on from this very detail orientated way of working to embrace a looser and more free-flowing art style. One where I didn’t know what subject I was painting until some way through the process.

​These “Out of Chaos Creatures” convey my love of the natural world. Working in this way keeps me joyfully engaged in a creative experience of the art. Each piece is painted intuitively so I do not know what will they will be in the early stages. Once I see something in the random marks made in the first few layers, I then start to bring out the form and details of whichever creature has appeared.