Over the past three decades he has worked to create his own symbolic, visual language. His work manages to evoke so much of the human condition – its joy and despair – through the use of confused anatomy and bizarrely juxtaposed elements in his beautifully rendered paintings. In this new group of paintings he has managed to distill this visual vocabulary into a series of close cropped portraits that are as startlingly intimate and attractive as they are unnerving, the hallmark of all his work.