Artist (MOPH) is an internationally exhibited and award winning artist, having exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Vienna and London with many works in private collections. He has been shortlisted and won prizes from the Winter Pride at the Tobacco Docks to the Churchill Design Award held at The War Rooms in Whitehall.
Within MOPH's paintings you will see glimmers of his obsession with alternative fashion and vintage film. He creates fun, tantalising, ironic portraits that he calls ‘Pop expressionism'. He loves using bright colours, sometimes even reflective paint that makes the work change as you move around it. Finding vintage and gothic frames is a love of the artists and in his opinion the frame is part of the artwork, and so he restores and re-colours them often using a vibrant palette, the effect is dazzling to the eye.
The artist takes inspiration from artists such as Barnard Buffet, Modigliani, George Condo, as well having an interested in tudor and naive art.
If you enjoy my work and would like to commission a project, I’d love to hear from you! Share your ideas with me, and together we can create something unique — a perfect blend of your vision and my artistic style
Dora
Oil on Board
80 x 60 cm
Above aur the two portraits I was commissioned to paint of a client’s two daughters after they discovered my work in an exhibition in Piccadilly. It was a project I thoroughly enjoyed.
Helen
Oil on Board
70 x 60cm
The Enchanted Astronaut
Pastel on paper mounted on board
148 x 117 cm
I was commissioned to create a pair of portraits for a client and his partner. They had very different interests, so my challenge was to make the paintings work together as a pair while still reflecting their unique personalities.
This pair of paintings is titled Time Shift:
Painting 1: The Enchanted Astronaut
Painting 2: The Night Botanist
Each painting is accompanied by a text that ties the works together through a shared story.
The Enchanted Astronaut
This painting depicts David on Kepler-22b, a blue planet much like Earth, located 640 light-years away. He has traveled through a black hole on a fact-finding mission for the OSO Government, working with the National Space Exploration Unit (NSE). His task is to investigate discrepancies from the failed Hubble missions of the 21st century—before the Third World War—in order to help secure peace in the 01 Luna Universe.
However, the portal he used to travel through space and time has closed behind him, leaving him stranded on this alien world. Kepler-22b is technologically advanced yet retains an elegance reminiscent of Edwardian design. As David explores the planet, he experiences a strange “time shift,” constantly encountering people who resemble those he knows on Earth but who are somehow different—changed in their appearance, intentions, and nature.
While wandering through a nearly abandoned city, David discovers cryptic notes and signs, clues seemingly left by an ally, guiding him toward the Enchanted Lands of the North. But his journey is fraught with danger. The planet is in the midst of its own hundred-year war, with fractured tribes from the South and West, and hostile alien species threatening to destroy what remains. David must tread carefully to survive and reach his destination.
The Night Botanist
Pastel on paper mounted on board
127 x 102
The Night Botanist
Annika, David’s partner, traveled to Kepler-22b two years before him on a botanist’s mission for the OSO Government. Her research focused on Kepler’s hyper-intelligent plant and insect life, which coexist in perfect harmony to create an ecosystem capable of thriving in almost any conditions—offering potential solutions for Earth’s agricultural crises.
However, Annika never returned and was declared lost by the NSE. The truth is far more mysterious: she discovered something so captivating in the Enchanted Lands of the North that she chose to remain there. Surrounded by a magical, self-sustaining garden, she found peace and purpose—but never stopped thinking about David back on Earth.
When she learns of David’s mission to Kepler, Annika enlists her plant and insect allies to guide him. She leaves cryptic messages and clues throughout the landscape, hoping to lead him safely through Kepler’s dangers and reunite with him in her paradise.