Mike's practice is driven by a disrupted figuration that is centred on the impact that painting has on both the painter and the viewer. By submitting to an intuitive approach to mark-making his work conveys a mood of disquiet and psychological intensity. Working primarily in oil, he uses a painterly approach to surface, colour, tonality and scale to derive unsettling and ambiguous imagery. Interweaving the rational production of realist imagery with the opposing forces of expressive mark-making, the subconscious, irrationality and chance leaves the viewer with a disrupted view of the world embedded in the material and temporal qualities of the paint.

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To Each His Own, 2021  
oil on linen  
1829 x 1829 mm

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The Present, 2021  
oil on linen  
1981 x 1981 mm

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Looking for Icarus, 2019  
oil on canvas  
965 x 1676 mm

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Untitled, 2020  
oil on linen  
1016 x 1016 mm

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Untitled, 2020  
oil on linen  
1067 x 1067 mm

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