COUNTING FIGURES
"This series of paintings is concentrated around the traditional financial district of London: Threadneedle street, Lombard Street, and Prince's Street, as well as Cornhill, Cheapside and others. In the ebb and flow of morning and evening rush-hour, these tributaries carry a mass of people and traffic spilling in the central arena outside the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange where the statue of Wellington sits, as though orchestrating this cacophony of City Life.
Recurring notations arise within this motif: the red streak of a bus, the grill of a black taxi, the erect traffic light, the rounded shoulder of neoclassical building, a striding figure below. From drawings and oil sketches made in the street, paintings are developed, seeking to find a unity in the residue of this flowing humanity, and the fragmentation of architucture."
From Catalogue. 2005.
