Even in the 90s I sussed Hume was pretty much a one-trick pony. There is no deep and radical agenda here. Gaz is shallow as. It's actually very traditional, very English - and not in a good way. His obsession with finish and technique over content might have disposed him to greater abstraction but Hume is really into the decorative, the slick and pat or familiar. When he started doing the outline things (late 90s? - I remember them best from his Venice-Bi in 99) I thought it can only be a matter of time before he turns into a 21st Century Patrick Caulfied. But Pat was actually up for the drawing and stylistic nuance, a sophisticated colour sense. Caulfield's are witty, if nothing else. But Hume doesn't get any further than tracing and those little ridges - engineered with wire or something - a tepid nod to the 3D or sculptural - doing nothing for the triteness of design, the triviality of the content.
Birds and bleeding flowers? You're out of your depth Gaz.