Early Work, Jamaica (1996–1999)

I established some of my most significant iconography during these early years. Utilising external metaphors to reveal my internal reality, my symbolic repertoire was imbued with recurring themes and references to nature and flora, skeletons, sea eggs and shells, the sky and the elements, brides, misfits, churches, graveyards, the ocean, imaginary boats, mongrel dogs and other fauna. A tightly focused style emerged as I strived to create the illusion of multi-dimensional realities even though the paintwork appeared to be almost flat and without texture. God’s Bride (1996), is the story of a Divine Marriage and a wedding party. It is a symbolic expression of love, loss, sadness, and growing self-love and self-awareness.