‘to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange!’ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Prologue to Book One.
Ovid’s characters are caught up in a flowing universe. They are vulnerable to mutation through the influence of nature and through the activity of gods who are continually transforming themselves as well as all creation. It is an interconnected world of divinities, people, animals, minerals, insects and plants, all undergoing change.
This series is a recapitulation of my long-standing techniques/themes. My work has always represented 'bodies new and strange.’ My paintings have consistently depicted landscapes surging, streaming and inhabited by dissolving figures and I like to exploit the messy and mutable matter of paint to make and unmake forms.
