Biography

Phlash creates work inspired by his youthful obsessions with Star Wars, Judge Dredd and especially that period of British science fiction TV where the scenery wobbled.. Tom Baker era Dr Who, Blakes 7 and Space 1999. He paints weird post apocalyptic "chemical landscapes" and populates them with strange creatures looming out of the gloom.

The unknown is a space at once fascinating and fearful by mankind’s technological advances and the romantic notion that there still lies undiscovered elements to the world in which we live. A derelict hospital, oil depots, nuclear power stations, the abominable snowman; collectively these semi-surreal settings and cartoon-like motifs appear as mysterious manifestations, phenomena both real and imagined.