In 2023, Doe began a new chapter as a painter following a multifaceted career spanning music, publishing, and design. From 2005 to 2023, Doe worked as a composer and singer‑guitarist, releasing music through labels including Sony BMG, Transgressive, LEX Records and Akoustik Anarkhy. Alongside his music practice, he produced illustrations, book designs and commissioned artworks for institutions such as the BBC, The British Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, CCTV China and Thames & Hudson. This cross‑industry experience continues to inform the conceptual framework and material sensitivity of his painting practice.
Doe’s paintings originate in unconscious drawing sessions that generate the foundational imagery for each work. These initial marks are applied directly onto raw canvas and gradually developed through layered textures and successive glazes. Selectively primed passages preserve earlier stages, allowing traces of the first gestures to remain visible as material memory. Rejecting the seamless polish of digital imagery, Doe foregrounds process: exposed canvas, sedimented surfaces and tactile brushwork emphasize duration, physicality and the residue of making. Grounded in post‑humanist inquiry, his work examines how the human body evolves in relation to the objects and technologies it produces. Hybrid forms and ambiguous structures recur throughout his canvases, suggesting speculative relics in which organic and inorganic elements converge and reconfigure.
Since committing fully to painting, Doe has presented the solo exhibitions Still Spinning (Albert Hall Mansions, London, 2024), Latent Relics (Somers Gallery, London, 2025, duo exhibition), and Muscle Memory (Mandy Zhang Art, London, 2026). His work has also appeared in Into the Woods (Make Room LA, USA, 2025) and The Collector’s Residence (Larry’s List, Shanghai, 2025). His paintings are held in private collections across the UK, Switzerland, Italy, France, the United States and China, marking an expanding international presence.