My starting point, I guess, the trigger for this particular work was the male and female with paper-bag and cardboard-box over their heads. I created them both from photo-reference and imagination. Everything else in the picture is a entanglement of images thrown togetherwith intention and...
The title ‘Sea of Love is pinched from a 1989 movie starring Al Pacino ‘s New York cop and Ellen Barkin’sfemale escort who both, unsurprisingly, get mixed up with a serial killer. My ‘Sea of Love’ bares zero comparison to it‘s celluloid namesake. My paintings are,...
Is this work puzzling, perplexing, enigmatic, ambiguous, perhaps labyrinthine or just plain baffling? For myself, having created it it's all of those feelings. Because, truth be told, my paintings simply evolve. They take on a life of their own. There's always a trigger, a starting point before...
Well, the canvas may be square but, to use 1960's vernacular, this ain't 'Square!' It's an uncompromising, unconventional work inspired by a simple desire to use a solid black background. So, I had to give it a go. And this is what happened. Once I'd started, typically, I...
I figured this particular work deserved an exotic title, hence - Ngorongoro - pronounced un-go-ron-gor-o. It is in fact a bloody enormous crater formed two and a half million years ago in what is now known as Tanzania, Africa. Un-go-ron-gor-o is now a wildlife reserve where tourists...
I hope this one is kinda self-explanatory. I mean all you need is coloured make-up, lipstick, eyeliner, or any face-painting kit that'll make marks on skin and, hey presto, you've got this one sorted! The big surprise was that I had to complete each individual portrait, ten...
Why do I paint pictures? Or to be more incisive, why do I choose to paint the stuff I paint? To be unequivocally truthful I'm flummoxed! I've no idea where the stuff (the ideas) come from. Serendipity? Hocus-pocus? Jiggery-pokery? Or simply good luck? I'd be the...
I am, not surprisingly, dazzled by present image-manipulation software. The possibilities and potential are both endless and overwhelming. So, obviously, I'm a big fan of the stuff created using these sophisticated platforms. But I just paint pictures. And as much as I'd like to learn about...
Mushrooms! That was the trigger for this painting. And one particular type known as Fly Agaric. I just happened on a picture of them. With their distinctive red cap and white spots they're visually striking and for some reason, in my mind, are linked to childhood...
Art competitions can be the catalyst that ignites the spark for a new painting. And so it was with this one. I do paint landscapes but generally they'll be part of the whole canvas and not just a stand alone work with trees, shrubs, skies, rocks...