The entirety of our lives consists of a series of moments
and from each captured moment, new artworks emerge.
Each portrait holds up a mirror to human theatre and
performance, and each image is a recognisable reflection
of our vices and foibles, melodrama and ego. My work also
explores the tension between the characters we perform
in public and the quieter wars we wage inside our heads.

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Nearly 50% of our lives...
we live inside our heads

Portrait inspired by: Jonah

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere

When I captured Jonah on camera one song came instantly to mind in my head...
Stop and Stare by One Republic.
In this portrait I'm translating the moment that Jonah's mask slips in silence and his world hesitates. It's as though I'm witnessing a soul in life rehearsal.

"For a moment, the street carried on without him.
And there, suspended between regret and possibility, he found himself staring into the distance — searching for the road he thought he'd been travelling all along." SeanO

My artist heroes are caravaggio and Hogarth

My artistic heroes are Caravaggio & Hogarth. Like them both, I draw inspiration from real faces plucked
from the city streets — recasting them as both actor and muse in drama-filled storytelling portraits. SeanO

We can all be emotional, irrational, magical, disconnected, performative and vulnerable, yet remain beautifully and endlessly complex.

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Explore the art process: three ways of seeing the same world: through photo, pigment and pixel.

THE artists creedo

Moments
Life happens in moments. Fleeting encounters, gestures, glances, expressions, interactions.

Behaviour
Those moments reveal how we act—the rituals, habits, performances, dramas, ego trips, kindnesses and absurdities of everyday life.

Inner Life
Beneath the visible behaviour lies another world:
of our hopes, fears, desires, insecurities, dreams,
envy, love, loneliness, confusion and wonder.

Complexity
Beneath every face lies a world of contradictions, and every face I paint carries a deeper story shaped by emotion, experience, dreams and possibility
...forever changing, forever unfinished.

We act and perform on a daily basis. Every moment reveals behaviour, behaviour hints at inner life, and inner life unveils complexity.

I'm exploring the tension between the character and life we present to the world and the quieter wars we wage against ourselves inside our heads.

SEANO

REAL PEOPLE. REAL FACES. UNREAL LIVES

unreal

LIVES

I capture real people on the street then recast their drama into storytelling artworks

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Nearly 50% of our lives...
we live inside our heads

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere

My artist heroes are caravaggio and Hogarth

THE artists creedo

moments → behaviour → inner life → complexity.

REAL PEOPLE. REAL FACES. UNREAL LIVES

unreal

LIVES

I capture real people on the street then recast their drama into storytelling artworks

SEE MORE ARTWORK VISIT MY SOCAL NETWORKS

Nearly 50% of our lives... we live inside our heads

Stop and stare I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere

My artist heroes are caravaggio and Hogarth

THE artists creedo

moments → behaviour → inner life → complexity.

SEE MORE ARTWORK
VISIT MY SOCAL NETWORKS

Nearly 50% of our lives...
we live inside our heads

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere