"We facilitate the poaching of people with much less power than ourselves like plucking game from the sky.Inspired by 17th century renderings of a good day's hunt, 'Brace! Brace!' is a disgusted look at the exploits of British arms dealers and the politicians who enable them.This painting is full of hidden figures and stories, the closer and the longer you look, the more you will unravel.The painting's painted depth allows for frameless hanging, allowing it to float freely off your wall for a clean contemporary finish.Exhibited at Alcove Gallery, Lyon, FranceAcrylic and pencil on board." 49cm x 59cm x 6cm"Having completed my Fine Arts studies and screen printed myself into oblivion during the five following years (with the tendinitis to prove it), I found myself in France. Moving for heart-warmingly romantic reasons, I also saw this as an opportunity to attempt to support myself as an artist. four years later so far so good! Completing painting and drawing commissions for the local and not so local populace has kept me clothed and fed. However as magnificent as these works of people, canines and landscapes are, my heart belongs to much more engaged and lyrical works. Ralph Steadman said it best and most briefly ‘I just don’t like bullies.’ Far away from just an urge to help my fellow human, I believe it all stems from my fascination will all things furry, feathered and wild. To me animals were the original ‘little guys.’ To imagine a walk outside without seeing so much as a (always underrated in the beauty department) pigeon, crushes me, angers me and it’s this mix of fury and love that drives me to make my best work. I have two simple goals in my works, to create something visually engaging whilst shining a spotlight on a worthy subject. If said painting revs a crowd into a riotous fury, to storm the bastille and change things rapidly for the better, well, that would be an excellent bonus. These passages of anger, passion and occasionally, in Spring, joy, are completed in oil paint, acrylic, watercolour, ink and photomontage."

49 x 59 x 6 cm