"[..] His creatures, monsters, occasional people and animal-like thingies inhabit charmingly odd environments that look like undersea landscapes or perhaps the ice caves of Muni Mula, or are often presented stark against backgrounds of big obvious brush strokes and textures of paint as paint. May’s paintings carry echoes of Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy and he occasionally tips his hat to pop culture influences with tributes to the likes of Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton. He works in acrylic on wood or canvas and varies between larger canvasses populated with multiple examples of his odd animals, plant things and sometimes vaguely microbial or virus-like entities, and smaller works in which one or two are isolated."

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