‘EL TORO GRANDE’
2022
125 x 94cm
Acrylic on canvas

Inspired by the carnival dances of the Oaxaca region, mixed with the obscure graffiti of city streets! Tradition and modernity together

#art #painting #modernart #mexico #oaxaca #contemporaryart

‘THE BUTCHER OF CUETZALAN’
2020
Acrylic on wooden board
122 x 122cm

Inspired by the butcher shops of the misty mountain town of Cuetzalan!

#art #mexico #arte #kunst #painting #paint #modernart #contemporaryart

A taxi catalogue painting from some years back!

Inspired by the various taxis you see throughout Mexico!

#taxi #mexico #painting #art #arte #kunts #modernart #modernpainting #contemporaryart

‘EL CHICO TORO’
2021
Acrylic on wooden board
122 x 122cm

Inspired by a carnival dancer from the Oaxaca region, I wanted to incorporate the distinctive cowbells that they have around their waists so used them as a chain border instead

#art #oaxaca #mexico #carnival #painting #modernart #arte

‘THE PURPLE MARAUDER’
2020
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm

A carnival figure from the Oaxaca region! With a nopales chain link around him, signifying strength, resilience and beauty

#carnival #oaxaca #mexico #art #arte #kunst #painting #modernart #contemporaryart

‘WHITE EGGS’
2022
Acrylic on flattened corrugated metal
82 x 90cm

Based on the shop fronts of Mexico City, this one’s of a shop that only sells white eggs.

#mexico #art #painting #mexicocity #contemporaryart #modernart

‘SQUASHED TAXI’
2022
Acrylic on flattened corrugated metal
82 x 90cm

Another one inspired by the taxis of Mexico, this one is from Oaxaca and like the previous painting, I wanted to play with abstracting it into a square

#taxi #oaxaca #mexico #art #painting #modernart #contemporaryart

‘TAXI TYRE’
2022
Acrylic on corrugated metal
72 x 68cm

Inspired by the taxis in Mexico City, this painting is a close up, abstracted taxi tyre. I’ve loved painting on corrugated metal for nearly 20 years.

#art #taxi #mexico #oaxaca #painting #modernart #contemporaryart

‘TRES DIABLOS’
2022
44 x 33cm
Acrylic on canvas

Based on the carnivals of the Oaxaca region

#oaxaca #art #mexico #modernart #painting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #paint

‘OAXACA TAXI 2’
2020
120 x 80cm
Acrylic on wooden board

Based on the bright, colourful, characterful and personalised taxis of Mexico, region to region, town to town, driver to driver, they all change

#mexico #taxi #art #artist #artwork #modernart #contemporaryart

‘OVERSEER OF OAXACA’
2022
48 x 48cm
Oil pastel on paper

Based on the Zancudos of Oaxaca, the men who walk above the rest, on wooden hand made stilts and often dressed as women, Zancudo means Mosquito/leggy

#art #oilpastel #mexico #oaxaca #contemporaryart #modernart

‘EL CARNICERO’
2022
Oil pastel on paper
48 x 48 cm

Inspired by the meat market stalls and butcher shops all over Mexico, this one was directly inspired by a little butchers shop in the cloudy town of Cuetzalan.

#art #mexico #food #modernart

'Stiltwoman' - Oil Pastel, 2022, 48 x 48cm - Another in a 5 part series of Oil Pastels for last years show at Carn, of the Zancudos of Zaachila, the stilt-dancers, some are men dressed as women.

'Stiltman' - Oil Pastel, 2022, 48 x 48cm - an oil pastel from last year's exhibition, based on the infamous Zaachila Zancudos, from a community
in Oaxaca.

'The Masked Lady of Cuilapam' - an oil pastel from 2022 - Inspired by the carnivals in Oaxaca, this was a dancer from one troupe, coming out of Cuilapam