Con Brio again Small (20 cm or less) almost as part of the

almost as part of the wider setting

I often make the focal point of the painting one of the area's old castles

slightly theatrical and wonderfully improbable against the Aberdeenshire landscape

the house appears at a distance

Con Brio again Small (20 cm or less) almost as part of the20 x 20 cm When Basquiat's 'Untitled (skull)' painting sold for a record breaking sum in 2017, it prompted me to look again at the language of his work: the crowns; fractured heads; text fragments; boxing references; and the raw urgency of his mark making. One painting in particular resonated it featured the comic book heroes Superman, Batman & Robin, and the Lone Ranger. As a boy, I was obsessed with Superman comics and constantly copied drawings of