candyland

CandyLand is the place where I set my paintings. It’s a place that exists somewhere in-between the desert and the sea and my imagination. A bloated sunshine state full of seedy motels, strip clubs, desert highways, palm fronded beaches, oil wells, swimming pools, laundromats and neon streets. It’s a place of vivid colours and shady shade. Of contrasts. Of dodgy deals happening beneath glossy veneers. A place that allows me to populate it with a cast of Runyanesque characters straight from the pages of a novel or a film. Surf Dudes. Muscle Men. Hit Men. Rogue Preachers. Fading stars. Tourists. Dude Cowboys, and many more. Each painting is a snap shot of a bigger story. Like a still from a movie. Part figurative. Part abstract. Often a blend of both. Heavily textured. And all rendered in glorious acrylic technicolour.