A little bit about me…

I come from an artistic family, and grew up used to seeing drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings – both at home and in galleries – which bore the signature ‘O’Connor’ in the corner.

So it was perhaps inevitable that I myself would return to fine art in my mid-fifties, applying the visual literacy I had honed during a long career in graphic design, towards a more personal purpose.

My work explores ideas of masculinity – across art, culture and history – through the male figure. My figures are not characters but studies in how expectations and role are mapped onto men through identity and ornament and how these emotional and cultural tensions continue to evolve.

I work in any and all media, both traditional and digital, and often find the switch to a different medium refreshing and energising.