Max’s recent series of drawings explore the relationship between external and internal spaces through a mixture of imagery made from memory and imagination. On this body of work he says,

“My visual memory is full of landscapes that are an invaluable resource when making work, I sometimes try to accurately represent a remembered view or take component parts to construct an imagined place. This seems to me a very natural process, the act of picking up a pen and marking out a skyline becomes almost an unconscious one.”

The use of differing levels of intensity is important in the images Max creates, in terms of mark making and in terms of decision making. Trying to balance close detail and planned composition with expressive doodling an making instinctive choices.

“I aim to try and evoke a sense of mystery, a glimpse into an internal world as in that tantalising moment we sometimes experience when we fall asleep, when tangible conscious thought, almost imperceptibly warps and shifts. Ideas somehow take on shape and form as we are delivered to the subconscious inner world, a place strange and unknowable yet so familiar.”

Max studied his foundation degree at Falmouth College of Art and then went on to graduate from the University of Brighton in 2001. Since then he has been part of numerous group shows including Antlers Uncanny Views exhibition, as well as shows in Truro, Brighton and Tuscany.

Max  has recently had a solo show at the MAC Birmingham, Mind-scapes, 2011 and has also had a solo exhibition at Gallery 49, Falmouth in 2004.

Max has been short-listed for the National Open Art Competition Chichester, the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Pizza Express Prospects Contemporary Drawing Prize.

Max is about to start a post graduate course at the Prince’s Drawing School in London.

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