Sax Break (oil based media - paint and printers ink - on canvas, 8' by11'6). Finished version on roll-over

Trainers Welcome, the show was curated by two of my College friends, Wendy Owen and Colleen Quinn in July 1999 at the Works Gallery in Birmingham.

Issues at stake in the show included accessability, materials and performance. My contributions to the show were the interactive paintings (above) in which I prepared the ground and visitors to the show did the rest, and Sax-Break (rt) which I worked on during the show.

Interests which inform my art, apart from drawing and my spectators love of music, include materials, process and an interest in Community Art, and these are reflected in the work I produced for the show. With the painting on the right I have shown an unfinished stage, photographed during the show, and, on the roll-over, the finished work, revealing the way I achieve really dense rich blacks through glazes of bright transparent pigments.

Other Fine Artists in the show were Antonia Greensides, Esther Hollingworth and Anne Stansfield. Other participants were Sarah Summers, Photographer Simon Owen and Chef Adam Cook as performance artists, while Product Designer Darren Walker (Design Q) had a display, and we mustn't forget Georgio who sacrificed his prized Juve shirt in the name of art.