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Sometimes I get a bit tired by the demand for only the latest, newest work while there are some old favourites dozing in my print drawer. So this time I will show a mixture of old and new prints with Julian Page Fine Art at next week’s London Print Fair. It seems its all print shows on the moment,...

I am fascinated by the secret lives we all lead, those vivid worlds beneath our pleasant ways. Although we all fear our innate savagery and would prefer to deny its existence or at least prevent anyone else seeing it we are compelled, like Bluebeard’s wife to be inquisitive. It is easier to do so in the dark of the...

Like a lot of people I am oscillating between a certain melancholy that the shortening of days brings and the festive mood of the last month of the year. Now is the time to gather our friends around to eat and drink with while sharing ideas and fantasies about anything under the grey skies. Perhaps more then ever we...

Installation shot of the gallery owner Dirk Vonckx and the artist at the preview of my painting show The Wondrous World of an Introvert. This show is beautifully presented in a very sparse way, only 2 or 3 paintings per room, the result is that my work looked like even I had never seen it before. Very lively responses...

Force them to understand that they are living in an unsettling world, a world that is not re-assuring- a world that isn’t what they think it is. I love this text, it expresses exactly why I am doing what I do. And to give you some idea how these things that I do look like here is...

Several exciting things have been happening; At the International Print Biennial my series of prints White collar black man won the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Printmaking Today Prize. In addition to their generous acquisition Clifford Chance has offered me an exhibition later this year in their London HQ. Recently the Museum Meermanno,...

In contrast to last month’s show in St Ives which was strong on painting June seems to be a month for showing prints. First to open will be RA Summer show where Child Soldier 2, with red jacket has been selected.Two other Child soldier prints, 1 and 3 can be seen in the North Lincolnshire Print Open. The Printroom...

My favourite season has started and I am bubbling with energy and ideas. Lots of things are happening: inspired by a 17 C grisailles painting I have been experimenting with grey grounds myself, the result are strange, ghostlike paintings which are really intriguing, a selection of them will be included in my forthcoming show Open Secrets at the Millennium...