Some of my recent work: Pages from Gogol, N (1832) & Pages from Platonov, A (1939), on show at Five Walls Prohect Space, Melbourne

I keep returning to Gogol, to his series of stories based on Ukrainian folktales where the world is turned upside down.

A new painting. Oil and pencil on linen 36x46 cm

New drawing on A3 Arches paper. Text fragment translated from a poem by Larissa Joonas.

Recently I've been working with mirrored overlapping forms and reading an experimental folktale about a child's misguided sight being visionary for others. Crayon on Lana paper, 30x21 cm

Orion and the Pleiades: Minimini Mamarika, 1957 earth pigments on bark. Anindilyakwa people, Northern Territory. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Man in a Cabbage Field: Edvard Munch, 1916. In the"Gothic Modern" exhibition at the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki

Kastani Street in Tartu. While on an artist residency in Estonia last year the owner renovating the house showed me around, on the roof under the eaves was an impish figure. It made me think hidden in geometry of wooden houses are such creatures, and he had simply called it out by adding the eyes.