Welcome to the Under the Lens Collection

This collection was born out of a recognition that during the process of making a piece there are many beautiful moments that get discarded along the way. Over these last decades I had a lot of requests about whether it was possible to preserve some of the moments people have spotted in the studio as I make my work. Quite often as a piece is maturing it will be fairly unbalanced but contain small grids of something rather wonderful. I had until recently been dismissive of the idea of capturing them, feeling that they may not be as strong as a finished piece. However, the same feedback kept on coming from many directions, and it was that was that some of the sections within a canvas at any given moment could be pieces of work in their own right. I made a decision to open up to the idea as a creative experiment. This collection contains the results. This has been a great process for me artistically, and it is by producing this body of work that I have broken through a lot of the insecurities that were initially present.

Over the last four years I have begun documenting the process in a different way. Now a few different offspring come from a single piece. Usually it’s a small section of marks within the work, some of which remain to the end but are often hidden under the layers that follow with just a suggestion of what was there before. They are like snapshots or mementoes of the journey a fully completed piece has made. For me there is something kind of wonderful about this collection, I love watching it as it grows.

Please click on any of the pieces of artwork below to see what formats each piece is available in..