Clown is a detail of painting (S)lumberland. The concept of the sketches for this painting were to pull back the curtain on some of my childhood nighmares and encapsulate them all into one painting. Long before I had seen Pennywise The Dancing Clown in Stephen King's It or Killer Klowns from Outer Space my parents had taken me to the circus. A perfectly normal childhood experience, until I was walking down a gangplank in between two sets of risers and from out of nowhere stepped a clown. I ended up being petrified of clowns for years.