My project is based on portraiture and people mainly. I've looked into artist such as Francis Bacon, Arnulf Rainer, Jenny Saville, Antony Micallef, there's quite a list. Anyway I started to look at and paint images of faces that appear somewhat eerie, unsightly in some ways.

These types of images and faces draw me in because they create a sort of uncomfortable vibe when you look at them and that is what I wanted to delve more into.
It is not only the atmosphere the images (faces) create but, also the perspective and angles in which we look at them, that have intrigued me. Instead of the conventional head on portraiture we tend to see, I wanted to experiment with angles and positions that differ to these, yet still keeping an uncomfortable and eerie vibe about them.

Here I started looking more into material that I was working on. I wanted to move out of the canvas, sketchbook habits I gained and try to work on different textures and types of material.

With the material I use, I want it to have a connection of some sort with the person/people portrayed on it. For example on the image above I painted a friend of mine onto a pizza tray because he is known for loving his pizza's. The distortion of the face was influenced by Francis Bacon's work, which to me adds a weird, madness to the painting and relates again to the crazy nature of this guy.