Series
Groups of work made in the same medium and spirit, newest first within each.
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Superland
2008 to 2009 · oil on canvas · 19 pieces
Thickly painted cubist cartoon worlds with heavy black outlines: crowds of globe headed and hash faced figures, striped spheres, splashes, rockets and giant faces in the sky. The founding vocabulary for everything after.
Magicbear
2009 to 2010 · marker and acrylic on wood · 5 pieces
Graffiti style panels on raw plywood about a bear character, with bubble lettering that fills every gap.
Commissions
2009 to 2022 · mixed · 6 pieces
Pieces made for people: wide wordscape panels, Superland style oils, a spray painted name canvas, and the 2021 digital Cliffs of Volcano Ball Lake that seeded the Colorlands.
Towns
2011 and 2017 · oil on wood · 13 pieces
Small square paintings of pastel towns and their residents: hooded pod figures, dinosaurs, dragons, vehicle creatures. Includes three group portraits and the Floating Earth Town.
Cactuses
2014 to 2019 · gouache, marker and oil · 11 pieces
Sketchbook studies of cactuses as creatures, photographed on a table, plus two oil paintings that grow out of them.
Airbrush
2016 · airbrush on paper · 20 pieces
Stencil airbrush experiments: bark patterns, a bike stencil in five colourways, Eastern Parkway in four, a totem in four, and two ink and airbrush landscapes that prefigure the Colorlands.
Characters
2016 to 2019 · airbrush on paper · 12 pieces
Twelve inch airbrush sheets of the hooded pod people: character sheets, city living, country living, and colour versions.
Screenprints
2017 · ink on paper · 3 pieces
A parody psychology apparatus ad, a line drawing for a print, and a reproduction of a 1930s airport poster.
Crowds
2019 · marker on wood · 13 pieces
Panels packed edge to edge with horned, toothed, one eyed monsters, and four mirrored reassembled crowds on joined panels.
Desertland
2019 · oil on wood · 7 pieces
Flat pastel desert landscapes of pods, blob figures and flying pods, Superland after a decade of rest.
Generative
2022 · digital · 4 pieces
Process pieces made from the scribble underlayers and hut textures of the Colorlands drawings, one laid over a Brooklyn street.
Colorlands
2021 to 2023 · digital · 8 pieces
Candy coloured digital valleys crammed with creatures, drawn in Fresco with hand lettered titles. Includes the 2023 revisit of Volcano Ball Lake.
Scribble Pictures
2023 to 2024 · digital over photograph · 48 pieces
Street photographs of New York, Toronto and Vancouver with cartoon drawing over them: faceless people, scribbled signs, soft cars, and from late 2023 a growing population of creatures and invented clouds.