I managed to cram a year's worth of paintings into one short slide-show. This is the output from 2008-09 and is accompanied by a piece of music called Serenissima which I composed and played. Enjoy!

Below you can see this drip painting being created in front of your very eyes! This huge 10ft drip painting took four days of hard work to create. Forget the gym, this is a proper workout... Click on the images below to see the finished painting. Actual finished size is 287cm (9ft 5) by 144cm (4ft 9) and it is currently offered for sale. The painting was made using a number of oil-based gloss paints

The new video was shot with my shiny hew HD camcorder and was really an exercise in learning how to edit film. The painting is very urban-inspired - both in terms of the techniques I used and also in how the drips form an integral part of the piece. You can see the photographs of Valentino here. Music is by uber-virtuoso guitar hero Jason Becker playing Altitudes from his solo album called Perpetual Burn. Check out his story by Googling him - it's truly astounding and very moving.

This next video features a commission for a coffee shop being painted at speed. Originally taking over five hours to paint this clip is condensed into a few minutes. Music is provided by Liquid Tension Experiment - because I like it and it also fits the manic speed at which the video progresses (not that I paint like that of course!). I painted this piece, which is around 10ft long, in industrial enamel paints - the same brand a the ones used to paint the Forth Road bridge in Scotland