‘An eclipse is an obscuring and a revealing, a momentary disappearance, a returning, a half glimpse a flicker a slippage.An eclipse occurs when an object is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of a body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer.An eclipse is a shadow, a memory returning, a revealing, An eclipse is transient, momentary, unnerving, primal, extraordinary, celestial.An eclipse is the collective noun for Moths. drawn to light but defined by dark. I will be showing a new body of work including my Ceramic Moths in my solo exhibition 'Eclipse at Long and Ryle gallery opening 15th October -13th November 2026
Commission 2024
In 2024 I was commissioned to produce a painting for a wine label for Castiglion Del Bosco vineyard in Montalcino Italy where they produce exceptional wines. Every year to commemorate the Chinese New Year an artist is commissioned to design a special vintage Brunello di Montalcino reserve. I visited the vineyard and its beautiful surroundings, to make drawings and paintings of the vegetation and wild flowers which are planted between vines which helps increase beneficial insects and improve the soil.
2025 was the year of the snake and the label features a harmless native Grass snake.
