Acrylic on Canvas, 3 x 4 Foot Per Canvas

 

Your Garden Variety Six-Foot Tall Talking Cat, I’ll Get You, and It’ll Look Like a Bloody Accident and, Honey It Was Ruined When She Bought It are an abstract exploration of pop and kitsch culture through the medium of painting. Inspired by patterns and colour from The Cat in The Hat, 2003. Titled 'The Amazing Kupkake-inator from the vivid splatters of cake mix that cover the house.

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Patterns are a recurring theme within my work, often inspired from movies or advertising. The pattern represents kitsch, the idea of mass-production under capitalism. The act of hand-painting a pattern which can easily be bought or found is somewhat ironic, as my work often is. By using expressive marks on top of this pattern, it once again creates that tension between the ideas of mass-production and abstract expressionist painting.