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Monday, March 30, 2026
Grounding: an exhibition in Duns: more photos
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Legs; link to youtube video by vongoval on weirdness
Legs
"if you don`t reclaim your weirdness somewone will reclaim your life":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6UjwQyWmwY
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Me, Aberdeen Coin Club
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Going home
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This was written a year and a half ago and, for some reason, not published.
"Goodbye Florianopolis"
I'm going home. I've done it here.
I have to do something with my possessions and sell my flat and get a ticket home.
It wasn't one decision. It was a more like a series of conclusions about each single element within my life.
Like, how interesting is it, really, to continue painting in Brazil? To live on the island? To converse with people here? Does it make me feel alive, excited?
Can I renew my engagement with making things here? Painting? I felt I could renew my engagement, by investing more, but the returns have been diminishing over the last few years. By investing I mean, changing medium, trying to visit new places and view things from different perspectives, pushing oneself to make more effort, to take risks.
So it's connected to how I feel about creativity. The excitement I feel about making stuff is partly generated from how its received in a community. I don't find that here. It just isn't an inspiring art environment. It lacks an essential element- lively critical debate. I miss the greater critical sophistication of British society.
Actually, I miss British people in general. They're amusing and often erudite. Their towns are sometimes very beautiful and there is a general consensus on what is correct and what makes sense and that's a consensus that suits me.
I enjoyed travel in Latin America: but my dulled mood is also connected with feeling that I have visited much of Latin America that I want to. I could go on travelling here, but I'm not passionate, not intrigued.
And the people I know here are always some distance off. They are ok but I don't really belong with them. It's like a bunch of people you meet in a railway compartment. You bond because of an impossibly long delay. But you are bonded by circumstances, not by culture or blood. I could never shake a sense of the arbitrariness of my personal connections here.
That is how I feel and it feels like I should go home.
I began to feel this some years back but I also thought that moving back would be a mistake because I was worried about what I'd do for money. But I don't feel afraid about this now. I'm not sure why, but I just don't. I think it will be ok moving back.
Goodbye Florianopolis. Goodbye Brazil. It has been almost 20 years. Thanks. You gave me a lot and you were kind to me, but I need to go now.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Frauhaus exhibition: some photos
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Part of my arm, a shirt sleeve, and my table
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Monday, September 12, 2022
Thursday, March 5, 2020
UDESC exhibition- some more photos; write up
The exhibition is a 14 picture survey of paintings from Santa Catarina, and covers work from the last 5 years.
This text was written and translated, to accompany the exhibition but the administrators decided not want to include it:
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
British trip, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Exposição Retrata Paisagens de Santa Catarina e Peru - 26/07/18
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Exposição Retrata Paisagens de Santa Catarina e Peru - 26/07/18
TV interview
Monday, July 30, 2018
Feature on the Assembleia Legislativa de Esdado de Santa Catarina site
http://agenciaal.alesc.sc.gov.br/index.php/noticia_single/paisagens-de-sc-e-do-peru-com-inspiracaeo-expressionista-no-espaco-cultural
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
BRDE Exhibition- snapshots
Monday, June 25, 2018
BRDE exhibition notes- in Portuguese
Explorações
T.D. 2018



















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