“Whilst a lot of my work is classical in nature and technique, I’ve always embraced new technology and techniques to try and achieve the results I am after. Sometimes it works and sometimes it’s a disaster.

The recent rise in AI and the heated debate around it is something that a visual artist cannot ignore. It’s currently in its infancy and who knows where it will go.

So, for this body of work I asked hundreds of people, the gallery included, for key words I could turn into a digital alphabet soup which I could throw into an AI programme and see what it coughs up! Some of the results have been strange and some have been downright sinister. I see AI as a kind of digital subconscious, which is often disturbing.

AI draws (pardon the pun) on previously existing images and then turns those into a digital collage. I wanted to take those digital images and complete the circle by turning them back into physical oil paintings, dragging the modern back into the past.

This current selection of oils are my favourites and I hope people like them, and if they don’t, they could get one of those ‘artists’ who just print off their AI images to sort them out!"