I like this very much but I haven’t yet seen a work of yours which I didn’t like. Is there a book of your paintings available to buy?

The UK has adopted much of contemporary America. With us its largely an ‘exotic’ thing, a desire to be American (don’t take this the wrong way but I tend to deliberately avoid these ‘plastic’ suburban places). We still don’t really have ‘drive thrus’ and I’ve never heard of Jiffy Lube. When I look at these paintings though it is ok, because this IS the USA and this is what we want/expect of America. The photographs of Walker Evans influenced me as a student and I still like them. There is a detachedness and a fondness in them and it is here too. You do it so well. These hold my attention because they are painted; every part is a deliberate act.

You will be surrounded by these places, grown up with them, yet you paint them with a detatched criticism and irony. Despite this however, you cannot disguise a definite fondness for them too.

Lopped out palm trees don’t stop me from having a fantasy life about this painting. The shadow shape on the road, playing with the composition of the clouds, the interplay of the architecture in the background, the manhole cover/umbrellas conversation all keep me wondering.

Wonderfully precise , neat & clean. Fully functioning at the high noon of it’s existence. Future Urban Blight, in it’s prime.