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 Passion-Bed of thorns( mixed media) 50 x 70 cm - This is another painting where the forms statd literal, but receded into abstract, in a continual process like the tide on a beach, with a vestige left each layer: There are hints of buildings, nudes and rocks in a blazing orange sky. But the composition as much on texture as colour. |  Durham Bridge(mixed media) 120 x 124 cm - Originally from 3 photographs and composed into an initial sketch. From this the painting developed with the material sense always at the forfront but the intention was really to bring out their essences. It is ultimately a homage to the beautiful of Durham county. Hopefully each viewer mind’s eye can weave it into their own preconceptions of what that beauty trully is, of which my painting will never do it enough justice! |  Everyday Cowboy, Pony and elephantThe techniques used for paintings like Durham Bridge were brought into question. Also the need for perspective…. Did I really need realism imposed on the composition or could I leave the subject matter floating in expression like a Matisse or Chagal. Obviously the result tends more to the latter, but perspective is used to help give the sense of depth. The veneer to this painting is figurative, but my main focus had been on the material qualities of the stone as exploration of material. |
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 The Mask(mixed media) 40cm x 30cm - The image of a mask is difficult to see. In this it is a clear example of staying on the boundary between figurative and abstraction. Hopefully there is equal satisfaction to both interpretations. The mask interpretation acknowledges the abstract power of Polynesean and West African masks, where ritual is clothed in symbolic blue feathers and a riot of passion in warm colours. |  Mountain Landscape in Spring(mixed media) 81cm x 122cm -This painting is both an endpoint and a beginning in my painting. It expresses much of what I have learnt on this journey of the last 4 months but also gives more exciting paths to persue. Many techniques have been used here , with the exciting potential grasped of exploring further the use of inks. It seems appropriate that the starting point for this painting was a moble phone image of the Pyrenees on my way to Carcassone airport in France for a return flight |  SUNSETLANDSCAPEmixed media 40 x 30 cm -This abstract has been worked on enormously, where its balance comes from the mix between colours textures. It is one for the viewer to actively engage in to define if they want to figuratively. Here my key is in the title of how to interpret this. |
 CLIFFTOPmixed media 40 x 30 cm - A more recognisable idea of landscape, which is subverted by the title if looked at hard enough. These small paintings are for me the most difficult as you can see that much of the work seems to want to explode from the canvas. Yet there is an enormous satisfaction in overcoming these restrictions. The aim is always to give more than one layer of interpretation.. |  TREEmixed media 50 x 60 cm - I use tar, inks, acrylic and lime here to invoke the essence of a tree. Like my figurative images of nudes, there is not a need to paint the whole tree, the living bark and trunk. But this is merely the starting point for other interpretations. The object is loose enough to be open to other interpretations. |  CLEARINGmixed media 50 x 60 cm - This painting verges on the figurative, without quite being so. One cn see immediately that it is a forest with a clearing, but this is simply the key to engaging with the painting. If looked at carefully, the whole is too loose, and little by little you follow the path into the forest…. It started with a collage to inspire it, which then were submerged in the tar acrylic and lime. |
 SPLINTERmixed media 60 x 50 cm - An abstract piece of acrylic and lime. In the painting process my inspirations were Bach’s fugue and the shimmer of dance. But there have been as many interpretations as viewers for this. The darkest of which struck me: through the shard nature of the strokes as the white bones of a city falling into a bloody precipice of nightmares over a violent sea! |
LANDSCAPE & SEMI ABSTRACT : FOR SALE
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