Scenes of Deceit

This series creates collages of gaudy, faded, beauty - painterly, neglected, richly textured, and strange. These images use small isolated details from Georges La Tour’s pictures as a starting point for exploring photographic “deceits’. La tour, a French seventeenth century baroque painter, explored chiaroscuro, the high-contrast world of candlelight, making him interesting to photographers who deal in light. Photography is a very different way of investigating the world to paintings. Layering and juxtaposition of painted elements, with my own photographs is used to create a surreal, photographic, trompe l’oeil world. They hint at hidden secrets and a doorway between illusion and reality. They question reality and invite a closer look.

Recent Solo Exhibitions 2021 - Wanton Boys - Chelsea Arts Club 2021 - Strange Shadows - Putney Gallery 2017 - Looking on Darkness - Viewfinder Gallery 2016 - Scenes of Deceit - Chelsea Arts Club 2013 - Strange Fruit - The Art Gallery Wales 2011 - Thinking makes it so - Aldeburgh 2010 - Beautiful and Damned - Hoxton Gallery 2010 - Strange Shadows - Association of Photographers Gallery 2010 - Phantoms of Delight - Archer's Soho 2008 - It’s Your Turn - Chelsea Gallery 2006 - Becoming - Chelsea Gallery 2005 - Silent Lives - Blue Room Soho 2003 - No Such Thing - Chelsea Gallery