A sentinel figure standing at the edge, beyond is the untamed unknown.
£600
Acrylic and Mixed Media with assemblage on canvas. 100cm sq. 2017.
The Wilderness Vanguard
Category: Painting
White Lines (fracture).
White lines or red lines when a break is seen as a new start.
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas, 60 cm sq.
£280.
The Emperor (and his new clothes)
Limitations unclothed.
£500
Mixed media with assemblage and acrylic on canvas. 90cm sq.
Legend
£250
Mixed media with acrylic and cement on canvas. 61 cm sq 2015
Notebook page for Legend piece noting symbolism related to the four elements and allegorical ideas.
Notebook Dec 2015
One For Sorrow II
Mixed media acrylic and embedded objects on paper 30 cm sq
Transient
2015
Mixed media, and embedded objects on cement on canvas. 40cm sq
This is a passing, a transition from one state to the next. It is signified in material but concerns the ethereal and intangible. There is no legacy, only values lost forever.
One For Sorrow I
Mixed media on paper 30cm sq
Here and There
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas 40cm sq
No rudder or compass, the vessel floats free. It is everywhere and nowhere. It is mythical sailing in stories of fantastic voyages of the imagination. It is full of empty dreams. We keep vigil as it crosses our horizon.
Contained Assertions
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas 40cm sq
Truth is examined, honesty held up to scrutiny. Beauty, no longer safely in the eye of the beholder, is in peril. Added value fails to keep the balance sheet clean. The square is without compass.
Illusion of Inclusion
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas 40cm sq
There are barriers some are subtle others plain. A net is more than a barrier, it catches and holds. The frayed edges soften the impact; maybe they are time worn, as if by tradition. The net sorts and separates, being caught in the net is being caught out. Included yet excluded.
What we say if we listen.
Mixed media on canvas 20″ sq
A seashell and other objects are embedded into and onto the canvas. The shell although like an ear is as much sending as catching a message in the form of a cloud whisper. What might be a landscape or seascape is turned to form another plane or reality.
Grass Roots
A series of four small (8″sq) paintings using mixed media and cement on canvas.
Grass Roots: the origin or basis of something; the basic or primary concept, rule, part, or the like. Again this concerns beginnings. Each piece started with a fragment of grass root from local moorland. These pieces also use collaged fragments of imagery created through digital manipulation of my landscape photography.
Grass Roots I
Grass Roots II
Grass Roots III
Grass Roots IV
Four Enchanted Spaces
Again inspired by nature and infinity this series celebrates the magical aspects of the world around us.
Dorado Cocoon
The final image in the series 4 Enchanted Spaces
Mixed media and acrylic paint and medium with embedded objects on cement on canvas
20″ x 20″ 2014
Golden Flux
The third image in a series of Enchanted Spaces. Two ideas collided here.
I was seeing the image as a poetic visualisation of ‘The Field of the Cloth of Gold’, evocative and romantic words reaching beyond the Tudor history. These visualised perhaps as a banner above glinting armour with an earthy ground. The hearaldry of a mythic pomp and circumstance.
Learning of ‘phase transition’ via a radio discussion it (the image) seemed also to depict the description given by the physicist to explain this phenomenon. The edges where properties of matter change in different conditions were described as a volatile mix of structure and space.
So the golden cloth is at some level in a flux with more or less stable edges.
Within within.
Acrylic paint and medium on cement with mixed media and embedded materials.
20″ x 20″ 2014
The Grass is Always Greener
Acrylic and mixed media with embedded organic materials in cement on canvas.
20″ x 20″ 2014
Infinity Quartet
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings
4 pieces on canvas 20″ x 20″ cement, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, PVA, mixed media, collage, embedded materials. 2014
In Progress
Before The Fall
Cement, mixed media and collage on canvas
20″ x 20″
Genesis is an allegory. It describes the transition of the human race from a state of innocence…. They were initially unaware of their own mortality; they had little or no concept of right and wrong. After the transition they had a moral sense. They realized that their life on earth was finite.
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Primordium
Acrylic medium and paint, mixed media on cement on canvas.
20″ x 20″
Once Upon A Time
Acrylic and acrylic medium, cement, mixed media on canvas.
20″ x 20″
2014
