Category: Selected Works

  • IF YOU MAKE NOISE OUTSIDE, MOTH CLUB WON’T BE ABLE TO MAKE NOISE INSIDE

    IF YOU MAKE NOISE OUTSIDE, MOTH CLUB WON’T BE ABLE TO MAKE NOISE INSIDE

    To me the MOTH Club is maybe best known as a stand up comedy venue. Nestled between the Hackney Empire and the big mad Tescos on Morning Lane, the MOTH club has been a reliable source of mid-week laughs for years now. But comedy isn’t even MOTH Club’s main thing really… going by their ‘what’s…

  • PENTHOUSE WAREHOUSE N15

    PENTHOUSE WAREHOUSE N15

    If you know the Manor House Warehouses between Finsbury Park and South Tottenham then I hope you’ll recognise this view looking south from the warehouses at Cara House and across towards the Woodberry Down Estate. If you don’t know Manor House Warehouses though, it might be harder to understand the significance of this cluster of…

  • BONNER ROAD

    BONNER ROAD

    This scene is one I was really keen to capture, because it’s one I’ve cycled through so many times and have always been struck by the space that’s formed at the meeting of Bonner Road, Old Ford Road, and St Andrews Avenue in Bethnal Green. It’s an unusual little triangle of open space between the…

  • SAVE BGWMC

    SAVE BGWMC

    I was inspired to paint this scene of the outside of the Bethnal Green Working Mens’ Club (BGWMC) after reading about the threat of closure the venue faced at the hands of property developers. Me painting the venue happened to coincide with the group ‘Friends of Bethnal Green Working Mens Club’ launching their campaign to…

  • SETTING UP THE ROMAN

    SETTING UP THE ROMAN

    I’ve wanted to paint a scene of Roman Road in Bow for ages because not only is it a great place to buy your fruit and veg (Nil’s is my favourite!), but it’s also such an interesting story of the East End of London and the changes it’s seen over the last hundred years. It…

  • DANCING WITH HOLOGRAMS AND THE GHOSTS OF EAST LONDON

    DANCING WITH HOLOGRAMS AND THE GHOSTS OF EAST LONDON

    Watching holograms of the band ABBA perform their hits between some electrical substations and London’s largest gravel pit has to be one of the strangest slices of what’s happening in East London right now. The ABBA Voyage holograms themselves were developed by Steven Spielberg’s special-FX company Industrial Light & Magic, and now live in a…

  • HOUSING REBELLION OCCUPYING THE LESNES ESTATE

    HOUSING REBELLION OCCUPYING THE LESNES ESTATE

    I was inspired to paint this view of the Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead after hearing of the action by a group of residents calling themselves ‘LesRes’ (the Lesnes Resistance!) alongside Housing Rebellion who worked together in occupying these homes in protest of their looming demolition by Peabody Housing.  Learning about the Lesnes story it unfortunately feels…

  • KENWORTHY ROAD

    KENWORTHY ROAD

    Kenworthy Road Bridge, London’s second most driven into bridge! After finishing my series of ‘Six Visions of Hackney Wick’, which featured a whole load of industrial units, old factories, and warehouses, I was really keen to paint something a bit more residential and typical East London. Kenworthy Road is all of 15 mins from Hackney…

  • THE DEMOLITION OF HUB 67 COMMUNITY CENTRE

    THE DEMOLITION OF HUB 67 COMMUNITY CENTRE

    ‘THE DEMOLITION OF HUB 67 COMMUNITY CENTRE’ is the sixth in my series of ‘SIX VISIONS OF HACKNEY WICK’. Turning to one of the main roads in the area, which joins the Overground Station to the older creative warehouses, White Post Lane felt like a fitting ending to this series. The Hub 67 Community Centre…

  • FINAL HOMES REMAINING

    FINAL HOMES REMAINING

    FINAL HOMES REMAINING is the fifth in the series of six paintings ‘SIX VISIONS OF HACKNEY WICK’ 2023-2024. The piece looks at Dace Road across the canal in Fish Island. Taking its name from the poorly chosen marketing banner on the new build flats in the area, this piece aims to contrast the light and…