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15 Apr A Momentary Lapse Of Concentration

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...

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20 Jan Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

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...

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23 Oct Blind Date

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...

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30 Aug Orpheus & Eurydice

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...

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27 Jun Ngorongoro

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...

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07 Apr Mistaken Identity

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...

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20 Feb Subterranean Skullduggery

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...

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27 Oct Bloody Tourists

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...

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17 May Ambiguous Certainty

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...

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