‘to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange!’ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Prologue to Book One.
'The Metamorphoses' are set in a natural world which is fluid and swarming. Meanwhile Ovid’s characters are caught up in this flowing universe, vulnerable to transformation not just through nature but through the activity of gods who transform themselves, humans and all creation. It is an interconnected world of divinities, people, animals, minerals, insects and plants, all undergoing change.
This series is a recapitulation of my long-standing techniques/themes. My work has always represented 'bodies new and strange.’ My paintings have consistently depicted landscapes surging, streaming and inhabited by figures dissolving since I like to exploit the messy and mutable matter of paint to make and unmake forms.
