creative work
40x60cm
oil on canvas
2011
Finished on the last day of the year. This was a commissioned piece that allowed me to follow my thematic interests. The building can be found on the Travessera de Dalt, on the nice walk uphill to the Park Güell from Lesseps station in Barcelona.
Here at the frontier
Oil on canvas
137 x 107cm
2011
Here at the frontier there are falling leaves.
Although my neighbours are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups on my table.
by Unknown, from the Tang Dynasty.
Oil and pencil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2011
A commissioned painting. The brief was for a room looking out into a natural scene. I’d had a painting in mind for a while of a scene after an all-nighter, when at the dawn, one reaches a convivial state where inhibitions can be put aside, when nature unfolds and one’s moment on the earth is unchallenged.
Oil, charcoal and pencil on canvas
120 x 100cm
2011
Commission. Initially I was asked for the perfect holiday picture, with no pointers as to what that might be. You’d think that I’d relish in the freedom, but it turned out to be impossible to paint. My idea of a perfect holiday isn’t going to be the same as anyone else’s, so after much handwringing and going down several dead ends, I asked for a starting point and was given “watermelons”. The painting followed quickly after that.
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2009
Commission. Just about finished when this picture was taken. I was asked for something red with a cat in it. The title came from a conversation with a friend. We were talking about schizophrenics hearing voices, how the voices muttered away in the background while you’re going about your daily business, as though you were hearing a conversation in a room that went wherever you did. I thought that suited this image nicely.
(The Admiral Nelson Public House, Whitton, Middlesex)
Oil on canvas
120x100cm
2009
Commissioned for a gentleman’s 50th birthday, who used to work over the road at the butcher’s, some 25 years ago.
40x60cm
oil on canvas
2011
i like to be a secret
2010
oil and pencil on canvas
80x100cm
POA
2010
oil on canvas
100×120 cm
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, ‘touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, o my heart shies from the sorrow.’
Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley
2008
oil on canvas
50×70cm
POA
2008
oil on canvas
40×60cm
NFS
Originally part of a larger painting that progressively went nowhere, I tore up the canvas and focussed on this section and it developed its own story.
2008
oil on canvas
60×76cm
POA
The Magus: a magician, holy man and sun worshipper.
oil on 5″×7” canvas boards
2007
POA
2005
Oil on Canvas.
150×100cm
Two years of work, on and off. I gotta learn how to paint faster.
This photograph was taken before the image was finished. The lady is now much more modestly covered.
1999.
Oil on Canvas.
90×70cm
This painting no longer exists, it was destroyed before I moved to Melbourne. I have tried several times to recreate it, to no avail. Another painting, “The Magus at Home”, uses the same source material.
1998
oil and conte on canvas.
120×90cm.
This image popped up into my head as I was dozing on a hammock in Saigon. I was reading Carl Jung’s “Man and His Symbols” at the time.
1997
oil on board
170×140cm
a painting that taught me to paint, after having done three years of printmaking.
