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The Blue Boy series.
He was born. He was blue. And they called him a God.
Possibilities
Oil on Canvas
77 x 77cm
This is one of my favourite paintings from the Blue Boy series because it captures the precise moment when possibility becomes temptation.
Blue Boy has spent his life being told he is extraordinary. For the first time, he begins to wonder whether everyone else might be right. If enough people believe you're powerful, do you eventually believe it too?
The Blue Boy series became my way of exploring the cult of personality, influence and the uneasy relationship between belief and power.
Identity Crisis
Oil on Canvas
50 x 45cm
Identity Crisis sits at the heart of the Blue Boy story.
Blue Boy was born different. People called him a god, built him a palace and told him he was extraordinary. The only problem was that he knew none of it was true.
This self-portrait reflects the simplest, yet perhaps the most important, question in the entire series: Who am I when everyone else tells me who I should be?
Although Blue Boy is fictional, I suspect most of us recognise something of ourselves in that question.
Held
Oil on Canvas
38 x 153cm
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Every story has moments that change its direction.
For Blue Boy, this was one of them. Was he betrayed, or did he willingly leave part of himself behind in order to become the person everyone expected him to be?
I wanted this painting to sit in that uncertain space where love, sacrifice and ambition become difficult to separate.
Whispers
Oil on Canvas
195 x 154cm
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Every story has a turning point.
For Blue Boy, it wasn't power that changed him; it was influence. The whispers began quietly, offering certainty, admiration and the promise of becoming something greater than he believed himself to be.
Perhaps that's how most transformations begin. Not with one dramatic decision, but with a voice we choose to believe.
I would remove the sentence about hanging it vertically or horizontally. That's practical information rather than part of the story. If you want to include it, put it in the artwork specifications rather than the description.
Sermon on the Mount
Oil on Canvas
97 x 76cm
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Blue Boy wanted to know whether power really equalled influence.
So he called.
They came.
And they bowed.
Sometimes the most dangerous moment isn't when power is given to someone. It's when they realise it actually exists.
American Chaos
Oil on Canvas
38cm x 153cm
Power has a habit of narrowing our vision.
Blue Boy became so consumed by his own ambitions that he stopped noticing the destruction left behind him. The painting isn't really about one person; it asks what happens when success becomes more important than compassion.
Ring any bells?
Just for Fun
Oil on Canvas
76 x 66cm
Not every painting has to carry the weight of the world.
Blue Boy unexpectedly wandered into this painting while I was working, reminding me not to take either him (or myself) too seriously.
Every story needs a moment to smile.
The Great Distraction
Oil on Canvas
38 x 153cm
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Blue Boy no longer needed to convince people he was extraordinary.
The figures drift through the painting absorbed in pleasure, distraction and themselves, while influence quietly reshapes the world beyond their attention.
Perhaps the greatest manipulation isn't making people believe a lie.
Perhaps it's keeping them too distracted to ask the right questions.
The Would Be King
Oil on Canvas
38 x 153cm
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Somewhere deep down, Blue Boy still knew he wasn't a god.
But after enough admiration, enough followers and enough whispers, another possibility began to take hold.
If he couldn't be a god...
Perhaps he could become a king.
Blue Boy isn't a person.
He's a story about the questions we ask when identity, belief and power collide.
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