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Made over a two-year period beginning in March 2020, Nightingales and Bombers takes its name from a 1942 BBC recording of nightingales singing in the Surrey countryside as 147 RAF bombers fly overhead. This was playing on the car radio during my journey home from seeing my mother for the final time, at what would also become the start of the nation’s first Covid lockdown.

The recording resonated so strongly with how I was feeling at that moment: reminiscing about our time together, rattling through memories in my head like a flip book, smiling, laughing and brushing away the tears as I headed home down the M4. Such mixed emotions and so much to process, compounded by the sense of it being an increasingly strange point in time for the whole country.


I see this body of work as a celebration. It conjures up the happy hours she spent sitting in her overgrown garden (Ancient Bloom/Canopy/Welcome to the Jungle) watching the birds and squirrels and her beloved aeroplanes flying in and out of Heathrow—metaphors in her eyes for freedom and adventure (Flight Paths/White Metal Bird); the ballroom dancing in her kitchen to Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again (Don’t Know Where/Don’t Know When/Some Sunny Day); the stories, the laughter and the good times. These are the everyday memories you cherish and the things you mustn’t forget.

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Lousy Bunch  / 75x61cm / oil on panel / 2022
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Flight Paths  / 110x137cm / acrylic on canvas / 2022 •
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White Metal Bird / 43.5x19x10cm / bronze
​edition 10 / 2022
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​Don't Know When / 58x88cm / oil on canvas / 2022
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Tea For Two / woodcut print on paper
42x30cm paper size / ​edition 80
 / 2022
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Baby / photogravure print on paper
​42x30cm paper size / edition 80
 / 2022
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Jays / 90x110cm / oil on canvas / 2022 •
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Some Sunny Day / 81x110cm / acrylic & oil on linen / 2022 •
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Mother Figures / 40x80cm / oil on panel / 2022
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Leavers' Party  / 120x120cm / oil on canvas / 2021
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Richmond Hill  / 76x76cm / oil on panel / 2021
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Idris / 44x28x9.5cm / wood / 2022  •
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Welcome To The Jungle / 100x80cm / oil on canvas / 2021  •
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Scotch Mist / 48x66cm / oil on canvas / 2021
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Canopy  / 40x30cm / oil on panel / 2021
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Terracotta Things  / 51x61cm / oil on canvas / 2021
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Don't Know Where  / 101x80cm / oil on canvas / 2021 •
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Glove Letter / found rubber glove / 2020
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Ghosts  / 101x80cm / oil on canvas / 2021  •
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Nincompoop  / 33x16x12cm / ceramic / 2020
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Hello, Sailor! / 80x60cm / oil on canvas / 2021 •
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Portrait of a Young Girl  / 75x61cm / oil on panel / 2021 •
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Gemini  / 42x21x10cm / bronze
edition 10 / 2022
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Birds of a Feather  / 75x100cm  / oil on canvas / 2021 •
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Chocolate Cake  / 56x50cm / oil on canvas / 2020
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Magpies  / 170x140cm / acrylic & oil on canvas / 2020 •
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Wooden Spoons  / 126x96cm / oil on canvas / 2020
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Mr. Diamond / 55x26x15cm / ​bronze
edition 10 /  2022
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Useless Bunch  / 88x59cm / acrylic & oil on canvas / 2020
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Oh, Flower! / photogravure print on paper
​42x30cm paper size / edition 80
 / 2022
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Stupid Cat / photogravure print on paper
​42x30cm paper size / edition 80
 / 2022
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Ancient Bloom  / 54x44cm / acrylic & oil on canvas / 2020
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