City Scape
City Scape is a 50 x 60cm acrylic painting on hard board. It is a fantasy representing the sights you find in European cities. In the foreground, an elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades, legacies of Amsterdam’s 17th-century Golden Age and the skyscrapers of Paris and London in the back ground.
Moody Marty – Sure Does Have The Blues
‘Moody Marty – Sure Does Have The Blues’ is a 1m x 1m canvas of my dear friend Marty. It is painted in Windsor Blue, Titanium White and Mars Black acrylics. At present it is unframed although this can be accomplished here or at the purchasers prefered framers.
Lepidoptera No.1 – Splendens
Lepidoptera No.1 – Splendens
This is a 45cm x 35cm acrylic on canvas. I painted it in celebration of a work colleague’s birthday.
Lepidoptera No.2 – The Grey Gathering
Lepidoptera No.2 – The Grey Gathering
This is a 35cm (H) x 28cm (W) acrylic painting. I have used a masking fluid to reveal lots of butterflies underneath the field of Paynes grey and titanium white.
Woman in an Overcoat
Woman in an Overcoat
This is a H 35cm x W 28cm x D 2cm acrylic painting of a woman preparing to go outside in the cold. The distressed background and fake frame are tired and old whereas our subject is full of colour and ‘life’.
Bottled Matthew
Bottled Matthew
Bottled Matthew (30cm x 40cm) is a medium sized acrylic painting that shows the artist and his faults; drinking wine and chain smoking.
Birthday Boy – Bacon Roll
Birthday Boy – Bacon Roll
‘Birthday Boy – Bacon Roll’ is a small 20cm (w) x 28cm (H), self portrait translated from a photograph of my own son on his birthday. His birthday made me aware for the first time of the precious and all consuming love that one feels for ones children. The portrait I show here is ‘Bacon-ised’. (an homage to Francis Bacon’s distorted figures). I painted it as a bleak contrast to the photos of the birth of my own son. (see also the paintings of my son as ‘Dorian Grey.’)
Rock & Roll
Rock & Roll
Rock & Roll is a large (1m x 1m) acrylic painting on stretched canvas. There are suggestions of rock and roll throughout the piece. There is also a large head in the centre of the painting belonging to a World War I trench soldier and this space doubles for a World War I War Horse
Titans, Gods & Men
Titans, Gods & Men is a large, 1m x 1m, colourful acrylic on canvas that suggests the relationship between the ancient mythical hierarchy of Titans, Gods & Men.