Sean Bw Parker/ Collage Art

While Sean is comfortable writing about other people’s creative work, describing his own—whether painting or music—feels somehow disingenuous. He finds it far more interesting when viewers offer their own interpretations. That said, his portraits are influenced by the cultural milieu, his abstracts by the paint itself, and his practice is at its most rewarding when these elements come together—though he recognises that “success” in art is a notoriously subjective term.

He loves the process of painting and values its own communicative power over trying to describe it in words. In both painting and poetry, his approach is: “Make, then see what I’ve made”—allowing concept to follow production through the subconscious. He seeks to add whatever is happening in the present moment to the broader world of art, in his own style. His new motto captures his perspective: if it doesn’t look like it could have been made by AI, then it’s “successful” enough.