Watercolour painting has functioned as a mechanism to build ensemble compositions. The works are “anti” watercolours eschewing many of the pretty artifices inherent in the medium.  They do not portray nature, they are not beautiful, instead the use of the medium  builds large drawings by incorporating multiple figurative motifs. The pictures also share an interest in the environment in which the figure’s act, butcher shop, abbey, street, cafe enclose the figures in an environments that constructs them.

I painted this double portrait of an Israeli couple I hiked with in the Zanskar Range. They had just finished militry service and the picture is based on their experience we he was shot by a “terrorist” during the second intifada and his colleagues “took care of him”. In 2024 so little has changed except the scale of the killings.