‘1914-18’ (2007), oil on linen, 140 x 100 cm.  2007

This painting mourns the millions of soldiers from the ‘civilised’ nations of Europe and beyond who slaughtered one another during the First World War. Deluded by patriotism, the soldiers were both the perpetrators of mass murder and its victims. The figure of grief stands in a vast landscape of war graves marked by white crosses. Ironically, most of the combatants on both...