St. Thomas, Jamaica 2 Painting

I am a London-born artist. The often regional themes in my works have in common the a fascination with the relationship between people, places and cultures. Heavily influenced by his life in South London, the paintings can be recognised by my vehement painterly technique and unusual pallet; natural materials mixed with thick textured paints, sand, oils and butters, overworked with charcoal, chalk, oil-bar and other mediums. With its emphasis on layer rich canvasses which provide a setting for paint and natural elements to come together, my paintings can be seen as a kind of urban abstract expressionism, deeply rooted in his responses towards growing up in a Jamaican family in London.