Painting

UCAS, the universities clearing service, have a new corporate HQ in Cheltenham. I was commissioned to create an installation of thirteen paintings for the largest office space, called "Reasons to be here".

An hour long painting on the road.

QED Studios in Birmingham commissioned me to be the sole artist providing art for the walls of their new office space. After establishing that I didn't do "interior design", I'm not sure what they expected, never having worked with an artist before. The only brief was "I want all my clients who come here to say 'WOW!'."

If you like to know how things are made

The mural in the first room is painted directly on the gallery walls. I've used a technique invented by the Romans. For many of their best inscriptions, a scribe would write directly on the marble with a chisel-edged brush with a red pigment called minium. This writing was carved out with a chisel to preserve it then the carved letters were repainted in red to make them stand out from the white stone. Most modern typefaces have unknowingly copied the forms naturally created by the swiftly moving brush.