Recently I’ve been creating works on paper. I like the way the scale of the images reflects the intimacy of the subject matter. The work takes on an almost diaristic quality - where we feel like we are looking at something intensely human, and personal.

As an extension of this intimacy these works are very influenced by the history, and process, of drawing. All of my work starts as sketches in a notebook, that then get refined through inking and painting. I wanted to keep the tactile quality of paper from the original drawings as part of the final work - to borrow papers literary and journalistic history to inform the space within each work.

I hope you enjoy these paintings. Think of them like pages from a diary we share, that says all the things that words can’t say.

Thanks for looking.

- James