China Bound

China-Bound is a series of work that reflects the duality of China that I experienced during my artist residency in Jingdezhen. These are a people partly confined by politics yet yearning for something more. Much of the country seems intent on aspiring to hyper-capitalism, while at the same time the soul of the country – its tradition – refuses to be quashed. My work is often abstract portraiture. In these works I try to capture what I believe to be at the core of this duality; for me the best way to express this is to scale back to bare essentials: primary colours and foundational Euclidian geometrical forms – the sphere, the cube and the pyramid. China Unbound speaks to the innovation of the Chinese artist’s spirit, bursting with new energy, encircled in freedom – with caveats.

The newer works in 2015/2016 were inspired by this series and similar works are available upon commission.