About the work

A closer look.

Tell me what you are holding too tight: the object, the memory, the person. I write back the form I see in it, free, before you pay. If that reads true, I paint it. Soft colour merged and blooming, pulled tight into a knot, one strand tearing loose and fraying. A custom painting, one-off and flat, made from the thing you keep. You get a high-resolution image file and a short note on what I saw. It is a keepsake, not a portrait: not a picture of the object, a picture of what holding it costs. It makes a gift for someone who cannot throw a thing away. The style is called Wrack. No two share a palette; I never reuse one. Three slots. The three paintings on this page are finished and stay with me. Yours is a fourth.