The ‘Hood’ paintings are an ongoing series, each work focussing on this one specific detail of vintage miniature diecast toy cars; each ‘Hood’ is viewed from above, contrasting the extraordinary range of designs of 60s/70s classics. All the vehicles used in the paintings were found at flea markets and swap meets and have been well played with and/or home customised by their anonymous previous owners. Roughly painted racing stripes, stickers or numbers are sometimes added, and subsequent play creates layers of history for each vehicle, with earlier paint schemes appearing around scratches and dents.

During the pandemic and confined to home, he took inspiration from the ubiquitous imagery of Google Earth, flitting virtually from derelict yard to random lots across the world. Hovering between abstraction and realism and clearly referencing the thorny issues of human interaction with the landscape, these paintings still revel in the colour and random arrangements that are to be found across all corners of the globe.