Foreword by the artist:
For as far back as I can remember I've held a fascination for
drawing and painting people. Wherever I go I'm looking for
the same things, the characters in the street, in the doorways,
at the bus stops, or on the benches. These are the people I wanted
in my pictures and as Sickert once said "I want my paintings
to be like a page torn from the book of life"
My vision is to record aspects of life as I see them without contrived
sentiment and without taking a moral stance.
These paintings are about the observation of the reality of human
existence in our society.