This guy is ‘King’. This is a painting I have been working on for a couple of months (on and off). Now it is in the final stages where I am fixing details, adjusting contrast, and basically making it look believable.

Photograph of the view from my window here in Abu Dhabi.

‘Because they can’, oil on canvas, 76cm x 51cm, 2013.

This work in progress is a comment on humanity’s need to build, construct and demolish, as seen through the eyes of 3 toys looking through a window. Lamb asks Ulysses the bear “Why are they always building? Where have all the trees gone?” to which Uly replies “They build because they can”. Titled ’Because they can’, oil on canvas, 76cm x 51cm (in progress).

‘Untitled’, oil on canvas, 51cm x 41cm, 2013. This represents my foray into ‘a more painterly style’.

This is a comment on humanity’s need to build, construct and demolish, as seen through the eyes of 3 toys looking through a window. When looking down at the endless cranes and concrete pylons, lamb asks Ulysses (the bear on the left) “Why are they always building? Where have all the trees gone?” to which Uly replies “They build because they can”.
Titled ‘Because they can’, oil on canvas, 76cm x 51cm (in progress).

by Stephen Bush

This is one of my all time favourite paintings. More information about the concept of it can be read here.

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm story of the same name, ‘The Juniper Tree’ 122cm x 77cm, oil on canvas, 2013.

Needing a break from oil paints and wanting to work on something really gestural and fast, I bought myself some oil pastels.  This piece depicts a scenario which I feel is inevitable given our current unwillingness to address climate change in any meaningful way. ‘Why Didn’t You Do Anything?’, oil pastels on paper, 20″ x 16″, 2013.