For much of 2009 I was buried in my studio developing a new body of work - the Monster series. This series outlines a myth centred on a snake-like Monster which devours paint or pigment as sustenance. The idea originates in Genesis Chapter 3, v19, “till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” and v14, “on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat.” The myth depicts the creature’s consumption of the painted world surrounding it. In its wake, it leaves a path of destruction, vegetation and buildings reduced to the raw material from which they were fashioned, paint.
See more of the work in the gallery.