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NUDES & FIGURES : FOR SALE
 Man + canoe(mixed media and acrylic) 50cm x 70cm - Though a literal piece of work, this is an seminal piece for me. The forms are clear as indicated in the title and it always started with a canoe. Here it is the material element which tends to the abstraction. The boat fabric gives the veneer of reality but the ink and limestone depict both the sky and sea. The solidity of material depicting fluidity…. |  Nude-scape in green(mixed media) 81cm x 122cm - Originally a landscape, this journey took me instead on journey of simplicity. The forms are powerful enough like few words with meaning. The size matters in that it enhances the composition. there was a simplicity as it took on its final form. It hints at the flat monochrome of American advertizing posters of 1950’s or early C20th Paris. I still tried to nudge the painting towards more of a landscape through my of tar in helping to define form, |  The Bathers(mixed media) 70cm x 50cm - This originally started off as abstract, but the journey felt pointles with too little focus. The material sense needs to come in gradually on the senses and the two nudes were simply added to what then became a fantastical landscape. The nudes were purposefuly depicted not too boldly so as to blend in with the rest of the composition. |
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 Forever After 50x 70 cmOriginally the model nude was taken from an original black and white image, in an exploration into the use of colour with which to define depth and tone. I used to work like this with oil pastels.The composition and distortion of the main figure fit nicely into my own quest. There is only so far you can go with beauty for beauty sake.You can only go so far in the exploration of pose, as it becomes meaningless without context. What should the art being trying to express? Should it have meaning? |  Portrait (mixed media) 40 x 30 cmThis painting veered into many ideas through different layers yet kept to the idea of a portrait. Initially a self portrait, then a journey into a material abstraction and back again and so on. Colour veered into an unreal abstraction but the mind continued to accept the definition of tone. The final lines in black tar were originally going to be a starting point to yet another layer. But in themselves were satisfying in portraying hints of iconoclastic imagery. |  CABARETmixed media 30 x 81 cm -This painting was the first of 2013 and it could also be termed the last. It had been worked on and reworked. It is a mixture of acrylic, tar and lime, inspired from a model shoot .Trying to obtain life and movement in a body was my fascination, through the exaggeration of curvature in the pose. |
 DREAMERmixed media 40 x 30 cm - This is part of my figurative paintings of series of nudes. The media is tar and lime with some acrylic. |  Annees follestar 30 x 40 cm - An expressive line drawing/painting of a nude, through the medium of tar. The title always is a means of accessing the painting, though it can also be limiting in the freedom to engage with it. |  THE SCREAMmixed media 50 x 60 cm - Originally another painting, the waves of garish colour brought to my mind Munch’s scream. The resulting image is not a figurative interpretation of a face, but an abstraction with the emphasis being the actual scream. The tar and lime work well here highlighting the emotional intensity of terror. The disturbing aspect is that it is difficult to decide if it is the monster or the victim! |
 THE CLOWNmixed media 46 x 46 cm - The strong earthy colours are framed by the tar lines into a possible glimpse of a portrait. If I wrote that on reflection, the result would point hilariously to the semblance of my mother! But again this is only my interpretation of an essentially abstract painting. |  NEANDERTHALmixed media 50x 50 cm - Like the clown, I worked here the process of highlighting a figurative key to an abstract painting. The material quality works with the stance of seeing a humanoid like figure in transition, with the idea of civilization hinted at with the crossing of legs seen at the knee. The rock- like nature of the background, emphasises the primordial state of the humanoid’s starting point. |  DEFIANCEmixed media 50 x 60 cm - My inspiration is often the female nude. If I paint figuratively, it will be in the pose or material qualities that I hope to engage the viewer. In this painting it was very much the qualities of the look, hence the title. But also I was happy with the cartoonish style to it. |
 MAIDENmixed media 81 x 122 cm - My landscape of beautiful forms. Originally a landscape painting transformed into a nude. Again bringing the landscape idea to the female form , is emphasised by just not painting the face, and allowing her stance to communicate with the viewer. |
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