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.

A square painting of a striped tower rising from a machine with three round lenses, surrounded by splashes of spheres against a dark blue sky.

A square oil painting of hooded figures with pod shaped heads crowding below a chalkboard screen, while a purple helmeted figure stands on a platform at right.

A square painting of blue, orange and green monster faces with wide toothy mouths swirling around a central eye, in flat colour with black outlines.

A square oil painting of green plant like creatures with beaked heads and single eyes, growing from striped mounds under a canopy of beaded, flowing shapes.

Orgplantic Land

A wide oil painting of small figures with striped globe heads standing on striped balls, beneath spheres on stalks and a yellow smiley sun, in rich saturated colour.

Floating Earth Balls

A dense oil painting of globe headed figures with hash mark faces walking through a city of towers, under giant round faces and dollar signs.

The Secret Level

A square oil painting of a pastel city of blocks marked with hash symbols, where globe headed figures and robot heads operate among splashes and spheres.

Operations Of The Symbol Manipulator

A square oil painting of flat key or hand shaped forms radiating from a central striped ball, in pastel pink, olive and blue with black outlines.

A square oil painting of a large circle with a scrawled face above a cluster of small houses, with a pink striped path and a smiling sphere, in brown, cream and pink.

Chocolate Power Sauce

A square oil painting of pastel pink, peach, mint and lilac blocks, grid spheres and splash shapes, with small faces in windows and no blue anywhere.

A square oil painting of a blue ringed circle with a scrawled face at centre, surrounded by radiating olive, orange and pink forms, bottles and small cubes.

A square oil painting of olive green figures with round hash faces walking among tall curved forms, over a pink and blue zigzag background.

Walk In The Park

A square oil painting of a pink figure with a hash face scattering red drops over big round faces and small globe headed children, in bold rainbow segments.

Edible Story Land

A square oil painting of pastel box shaped machines and pods with faces among orange splashes, almost entirely in pink, yellow, mint and lilac.

Almost Blueless Spaceland

A square oil painting of a crowd of figures with ringed helmet heads standing in a street between buildings, looking up at a sky of pink and yellow stripes.

A square oil painting of a blue and green rocket with pilot faces blasting diagonally over a row of houses, while a child like figure with a globe head watches.

The Departed Operators

A square oil painting of a small figure in a purple ringed space helmet with a scrawled face, standing in an orange suit among stacked blocks, flames and sails.

A wide, very dense oil painting of a crowd of globe headed figures in a city street under an exploding orange sun face, planets and ribbons of colour.

A square oil painting of a crowd of pod bodied figures with hash faces walking toward a city of totem poles under a sky of spheres and antennae.

Totem Pole Spirit Land