The early morning mist shrouds the famous statue of David, by famous artist and sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo. This ethereal representation is an enhanced image I took in Firenze (Florence), Italy in 2015.

The history of the statue of David begins before Michelangelo’s work on it from 1501 to 1504.
With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.

The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties embodied in the 1494 constitution of the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the political aspirations of the Medici family.

In one of many photos I took at the Victor Emanuele II Monument back in 2015, this cute little cherub, a small part of a much larger sculpture, appears to be keeping a watchful eye over the adjoining piazza.

He seems so innocent while he holds a sword.
Is he aware of what it is that he holds? Is he ready for a fight?
Or does his naivety rule strongest in his mind, blissfully unaware of the irony he displays?

A messenger of love, wielding an instrument of death.

‘The Musician’ is more of a reflection than a self-portrait. ~ Or is it?!

My Jekyll and Hyde. The work explores the influence of red wine on the creative process, perhaps having gone too far on the grog.

As artists we often get asked “Where did the idea come from?”
For many, we answer with a humble “I don’t know, it just came to me.”

But thinking about it a little deeper I realised that many of my ideas are actually spawned in the last third of a bottle of red wine (or white, or rosé or whatever…).

This work was created at a ‘music, art and drinks night’ held at the wonderfully creative space ‘Karma Collab Hub’ in Miami on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

With no idea of what I was going to produce, I thought about doing a loose portrait which evoked the feeling in the room at the time.

Success I think.