artists statement for recent works not yet shown here.

All my portraits are honest; they are given with truthfulness free from flattery.
My paintings disclose only a micro second of the persons behaviour, immersed in a
Social process, I am stopping and recording something that has become so casual so environmental, we go about our day to day tasks with the numbness of commuters are eyes unseeing.

“We distrust depths, interiors, hidden truths. Meanings lie on surfaces, artefacts of an occasion rather than truths about persons…. In place of persons with revealing faces we look for contingencies, signs of constructedness, cracks and fissures in facades which disclose the paint and wires.” Alan Trachtenberg 2000.

“The human face never lies. It is the only map that records all the territories where we have lived.” Luis Sepulveda 1998.