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...
This is Blind Date. That's the title. This is the painting. I don't know who these two are, not surprisingly, neither do they. After all it is a blind date. He suggested meeting in the show-ground but hadn't anticipated that the travelling carnival would be in town. Neither had she. Or...
Orpheus and Eurydice (pronounced Yoo-rid-i-cee), were husband and wife, both characters that inhabited Greek Mythology. Orpheus, a young male poet and musician was bestowed with enough charisma that he could beguile man, beast, even the Gods themselves with his music and song! Eurydice was a daughter...
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...
A smaller canvas but, hopefully, no less beguiling or intriguing. From the very beginning I didn't have a title. Which, for me, is unusual. I generally come up with the title for a new work fairly quickly. It's a kind of inspiration thing. An instantaneous moment. But...
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...
I have always been a fan of the work of some late Victorian artists. Despite Britain being their homeland they chose subject matter set in a far-removed time and place. So, their paintings in which characters inhabit ancient settings and go about their everyday lives are pure...