Large Ink Works on Japan Paper

These large works deal with my life in the City of London. Mapping My World is a visual map of the Barbican Complex as well as the many walks around the City where I wander "as a flanneur" without a map, getting lost. Spy Map, a serendipitous print of Mapping My World, is almost a secret map and, like a spy, I ask the viewer to join the dots and make their own path through my world. What Lies Beneath, bottom left, deals with the medieval Jewish cemetery that lies under the Barbican which will be fully recognised in 2025 (@the_jewish_square_mile). Self Portrait or Dancer in Barbican Gardens is once again embedded in both the natural and urban landscape and the large dancing figure symbolises the pre-eminency of human life over all else. Both in the design of our urban environment (the way in which we design cities for the enjoyment of human life) and in its continued sustenance, the City depends on people. Since the pandemic, the City has lost some of its people with WFH and the exit to cheaper accommodation outside London. This painting asserts the importance of the person in the City as a central motif.