London Memory Painting no. 1

• Holy well decorations
• Irish 'celebrity' pictures
• Egyptian funerary portraits
• Venezuelan rustic art
• African barbershop signs
• religious icons
• surf T-shirts
• football cards
• crap signs
• those blue photos you get in old shop windows

fruitless searches for things that are lost, be they people, underground rivers, stories, buildings or ways of life. Regular motifs include the connecting and merging of maps, old photographs and whiskey-based visions. The beauty of the the mundane. The epiphanies - I call them "Zen Newsflashes" - that are close to home, springing from a desire to make sacred the familiar.