The walls are covered with bold, colourful and surreal artwork; painting, posters, sketches and 3D canvas sculptures. 

Bound has been drawing since he was three years old, and his sketchbooks are filled with caricature drawings popping off the page. 

“That’s where I started off, just making work for myself to keep myself happy and now I’m starting to actually put it out there a bit more,” he said. 

Bound’s hope is that his art will be as enjoyable for people to view as it is for him making it. 

“I just like to make art that everybody can enjoy,” he said. 

“For me making it is an incredibly positive experience, I just channel the things that I like into doing it and that’s the foremost thing I want people to experience when they look at it.

“I want them to know this guy’s had a great time making this, and therefore that makes them feel good, it’s really that simple.”

There is a down-to-earth honesty in Bound’s approach to his art. 

“I don’t like to over complicate it with art meaning and art theory,” he said. 

“I think that happens a lot, which is fine in the art world but I think it turns a lot of people off because they find it quite snobby, so I just like to keep it very real. It’s for everyone.”

Three white canvases with faint pencil lines on them stand against a wall covered with a protective tarpaulin.

Bound really came to paint as a medium when at university, and loved it. 

“I’d never really painted before that and I did it and was like, this is pretty cool I really like this medium it’s very malleable and it’s different, exciting,” he said. 

“It’s been a real big focus ever since then.”

Bound’s work falls into the style of abstract expressionism and he said he loves the process involved in making it. 

“I chose abstract expressionism as a style because it’s very upfront and visceral and colourful, it’s very chaotic you just let the materials do what they want and you just try and control this crazy mess,” he said. 

“It’s just very exciting making it and [that] comes across in the final product.”

When approaching a painting, Bound said he starts with a “chicken scratch drawing” outlining what he wants to paint, which helps keep the work directed. 

“I’ll try to use that as a reference to make the shapes, but due to the nature of the material and because I work straight down it just runs all over the place so it never ends up going according to plan,” he said. 

Bound’s work is exhibited at Current Junk in Vincent Street, Launceston.