After painting on top of photos for a number of years, including the Murmillos installation, I did my 1st painting for the Coffee Art Project this year. I was delighted and amazed that it got selected for their exhibition at Truman Brewery. Today I attended my first painting class! I found a skull to paint which will become a theme for the FlimFlam exhibition in September for DeptfordX. I’m exploring the relationship between reality (do photographs represent reality?) and fiction (painting from the imagination, to produce surreality). Here is some work in progress. Just studies at this stage