About the series

With colour, form and movement at its foundation, my interest is in creating a visual environment that lets often competing messages sit together and interact — the emotional and intellectual, the written word and painted image. 

 

Still Golden is a small collection of limited edition prints that reprocesses the 27 years I spent in the newsroom at the London Evening Standard. 

 

Even in printed form it's possible to appreciate the countless layers of mixed-media collage from which the original images are created.

 

The series examines the noise of constant (often quite negative) information present in society and juxtaposes it with vibrant explorations of feelings.

 

In deconstructing and piecing back together my work as a journalist — employing collaged newspaper cuttings from stories that I’ve either written or subbed — I want to replicate the former role by editing what does and doesn’t make it to the canvas.

 

While a personal reflection on recent events, both societal and political, I hope the nature of the work’s abstraction allows others to engage with the paintings on their own terms.