PIXEL
NEARLY 50% OF OUR LIVES...
WE LIVE INSIDE OUR HEADS
Pixel artworks operate on the boundary
between reality and imagination.
REAL PEOPLE. REAL FACES. UNREAL LIVES
We all live two lives,
one in our heads, one in conscious reality
...sometimes the worst of us is set free
The life we live and the life we imagine
Some scenes were witnessed. Others are our worst nightmares realised. Where reality, memory, fear, desire, and possibility collide, I transform them all into very human, satirical narrative artworks.
My pixel artwork will at times transform private thoughts, fears, fantasies, confrontations and desires into visible worlds, revealing the emotional landscapes we carry behind our faces every day.
The artwork asks a simple question:
What if both the visible and hidden halves of our lives became impossible to hide?
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Honey
...I dumped the kidz
REAL PEOPLE. REAL FACES. UNREAL LIVES
Good friends just know when you've had enough
Modern Families - the whoopsie
Artist's Process
Real Faces. Real People
...transformed into unreal art.
The UNREAL Portrait
Some witnessed. Others shaped by stories I've heard.
Bin-End Speed Dating
My Real Life Actors and Muses
...and a very subtle F*ck Off!
A last throw of the dice for two successful people who have mastered almost every part of life except sharing it with someone else. Julian arrives full of confidence, pressing enthusiastically forward.
Maya's response is beautifully understated. One raised hand says everything words never could.
Sometimes the greatest obstacle to finding love isn't a lack of opportunity. It's two people so firmly established in their own worlds that neither knows how to make room for another.
Julian
Old Compton St
Julian & Maya
Imagined Location: Mayfair
Maya
Bishopsgate
We can be so complex, so absurd,
so wonderfully mad and so awe inspiring
...every experience, every adventure, every
accomplishment teaches us something
Maria & Tom
Djan & Sid
Mick, Megan & Bob
Maria & Tom: The wheelchairs tell us about their life journey. The hands tell us about their humanity. The rest is a story every heart understands.
Dejan & Sid: "We ain't doing anything illegal. We don't do drugs... just weed.
It's also a cheap ticket out of a cul-de-sac when there's nowhere left to go."
Megan : She was embracing greater freedom, confidence, and self-expression...or perhaps it was simply more fun being a bad-ass bitch.
Pixel artworks stand between real-life events and imaginative storytelling.
Behind these Walls
Something's Got to give
They sit only feet apart, separated not by brick or stone, but by hesitation. The cruelest walls are rarely built from concrete; they are built from uncertainty and somewhere behind those walls lies a question neither may ever answer:
What if?
Aisha and Yusuf
Relationships cannot survive on one beating heart alone, eventually, even the strongest shoulders grow tired of carrying the weight of two people. The ring remains in her hand, the future remains unwritten. But one thought grows louder than all the others... Something's got to give.
Mabel
The private and expressive theatre that exists inside every human being,
where everyone has a compelling story to tell.
Disagreement ...and a tad too much wine
Courage to change
Friendship, wine, and strong opinions can be an unpredictable combination. As the evening drifted towards closing time, patience quietly slipped away, leaving emotion to take centre stage. The wine had begun to flow where reason once lived. Sometimes it only takes one bottle too many for the theatre to begin.
Mai, Thea & Isabella
Sunday Girl ...the day after yesterday
The most important battles are rarely fought in public. They unfold quietly inside the mind, where fear argues for familiarity and hope whispers of something better. Every meaningful change begins the moment courage finally finds its voice. Her expression captures that decisive moment when the old life begins to loosen its grip, and the courage to change finally becomes stronger than the fear of staying the same.
Molly
I witnessed this moment, but perhaps my portrait is ever so slightly exaggerated. The party is over, empty bottles spill from the wheelie bins, yesterday's wardrobe hangs forgotten in the windows, and the unmistakable evidence of yesterday's enthusiasm. By Sunday morning, Chantel emerges bedraggled, only one final performance... taking out the procession of empties.
Chantal
Some scenes were witnessed. Others imagined.
Pixel art is where reality and imagination collide.
My pixel portraits operate on the boundary between reality and imagination and the monochromatic humans set against colour world backgrounds immediately creates a psychological separation. The characters appear to belong to the scene physically, yet somehow exists outside it emotionally. The black-and-white treatment almost turns the figure into a thought, memory, ghost, or internal self, while the colour environment represents the external world continuing around them.
Suspicious Minds
A smartphone has become the modern keeper of secrets. One playful smile at the screen, a hurried message, and an innocent moment can suddenly feel loaded with doubt. Sometimes the greatest damage isn't caused by what we know, but by the stories we quietly invent inside our own heads.
Real people captured on the streets are recast as actors within a 21st Century Hogarthian world, where monochromatic characters tell their stories against colourful, iconic scenes of London. Each portrait holds up a mirror to human theatre and performance, existing somewhere between beauty, abnormality, and absurdity.
Stark contrasts, dense shadows, and sharp tonal highlights amplify the drama, allowing the inner mood of each figure to emerge without the distraction of colour. My tonal sketches attempt to reveal the hidden world of my street muses. Stripped of colour, their expressions become clearer—more truthful, more tense, and more emotionally direct.
The artwork asks a simple question:
What if both the visible and hidden halves of our lives became impossible to hide?
Wendy & Ian
I'm in chains
My pixel sketches of people are monochrome for a very good reason. With monochromatic faces, there is less ambiguity in reading emotion. Stark contrasts, dense tonal shading, bright whites and smoky blacks, allow the psychological drama of the figure to surface more clearly.
Standing on street corners
The chain is impossible to ignore, yet its meaning remains entirely open to interpretation. It may be the chains of love... or is it statement of fashion, strength, identity, memory, or metaphor... every viewer will see something different. Perhaps that is the portrait's greatest truth: we all carry invisible chains, but perhaps the strongest chains are not those we wear, but those we struggle to free ourselves from.
"We ain't doing anything illegal. We don't do drugs... just weed...
it's also a cheap ticket out of a cul-de-sac when there's nowhere left to go."
What happens when life quietly loses its momentum and smoke fills the silence where ambition once lived. Dope just dulls the thought that life is going nowhere.