Summer in Scotland – Sunshine Pouring onto the Mountains
Summer in Scotland is a depiction of Scotland through rain and shine. Even the sun is raining onto the ‘divine’ mountains and pours onto the arable pasture.
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.5 – The Great Grey Fluttering
Lepidoptera No.5 – The Great Grey Fluttering is a 100cm (H) x 100cm (W) x 3.5cm (D) acrylic painting. I have used patches of crimson, Paynes grey and titanium white and masking fluid to reveal one hundred, fluttering butterflies. This is the largest of the Lepidoptera series… so far! This painting was painted in the Spring of 2018 and joins the four other butterfly paintings in this series. I enjoy this form of expression so I will add to this collection in the future.
Butterflies are insects in the Order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago.
Butterflies have the typical four-stage insect life cycle. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take several years to pass through their entire life cycle.
Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry and aposematism to evade their predators. Some, like the monarch and the painted lady, migrate over long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites or parasitoids, including wasps, protozoans, flies, and other invertebrates, or are preyed upon by other organisms. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; other species are agents of pollination of some plants. Larvae of a few butterflies (e.g., harvesters) eat harmful insects, and a few are predators of ants, while others live as mutualists in association with ants. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.
(most text abridged from the wikipedia page on Butterflies)
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith striking one of her iconic poses. This painting was created after visiting an old friend a Patti Smith die hard, Debbi Marshal. The 1m x 1m acrylic uses Signal Black and white for the background and Paynes Grey and white for the subject.
Patricia Lee “Patti” Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Smith’s most widely known song is “Because the Night”, which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. The song reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. In Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010, she was in 47th place. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
Flowers of Ascension No.1 – Pollination
Flowers of Ascension No.1
Flowers of Ascension No.1 , is a 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas painting which magnifies the abundance of pollen in the air that affects so many people in high summer. The black board keeps our attention focused on the myriad of particles trapped in the painting.
The Flowers of Ascension represent flower like energies rising to Paradise after death.
Flowers of Ascension No.2
Flowers of Ascension No.2
Flowers of Ascension No.2 is 50cm x 50cm, box framed acrylic painting of a fantasy of flowers and forms a pair along side Flowers of Ascension No.3 also 50cm x 50cm.
The Flowers of Ascension represent flower like energies rising to Paradise after death..
Flowers of Ascension No.3
Flowers of Ascension No.3
Flowers of Ascension No.3 is a 50cm x 50cm box framed acrylic painting of a fantasy of flowers and forms a pair along side Flowers of Ascension No.2 (also the same dimensions)
Forties Alpha Oil Platform in a Forties Gale
Forties Alpha Oil Rig in a Forties Gale, is a large 120cm x 120cm acrylic painting on canvas, with a complex mount and name plate.
Cormorant Alpha with spuming seas
Cormorant Alpha with spuming seas This is a fantasy view of the Cormorant Alpha platform during high seas on a crisp Winters day. It measures 1 x 1m and is painted in acrylic on canvas. The waves lap, the wind howls and throws up spume from the waves. Cormorant Alpha with spuming seas is a large and imposing painting, ideal for a large room in a house or in an office space. This depiction was painted … Read More
Oil Platform in a Squall – A Fantasy of Engineering
Oil Platform in a Squall is a fantasy view of a fictitious platform during high seas. It measures 120 x 120cm and is painted in acrylic on canvas.
A large and imposing painting, ideal for a large room in a house or in some office space.
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’.
Pondering
Pondering is an acrylic painting presented on a 60cm x 80cm canvas. The bold blues contrast heavily with the oranges in the background and our figure stands wondering at something in his hand.
Fraternity!
Fraternity ! A Human Study Draped in the Tricolore
Fraternity is a 100cm x 60cm acrylic on canvas. The model is shown, just out of the shower and standing in an opening guarded by the French Tricolore flag.
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.
The Rose Bud Vampire
‘The Rose Bud Vampire’ ‘The Rose Bud Vampire’ is an acrylic painting drawn on a 18in x 14in stretched canvas. The work comprises primary yellow, primary cyan and primary magenta, with all the other colours being generated by the mixing of these three with water. The vampire, wearing Skull Candy, Hesh 2, head phones, is turning and calling to a vampire skeleton dog. The piece was painted on the 5th March 2016 in my hospital room … Read More
Bluetooth Bubble Gum Kiss
Bluetooth Bubble Gum Kiss
Bluetooth Bubble Gum Kiss, is an acrylic painting, comprised of primary yellow, primary magenta and primary cyan on a 18in x 14in stretched canvas.
The Vampire skeletons are enjoying a moment of joint isolation as they listen to their music oblivious to the world around them. Their moment is enhanced with them sharing a stick of bubble gum. Does it lead to a kiss, like the famous scene in the ‘Lady and the Tramp’? Yes, we think so.
The painting was finished on 6th March 2016 on Drum Ward, Royal Cornhill Hospital.
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.