Go! Rhinos: Day three

The rhino is starting to take shape .

Water Lillies 1 - unfinished

Water Lillies 2 - unfinished
 

The Secret Garden - underpainting

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living

Focus is placed on playful nonsense and the prosaic, reformed and attached to an ever shifting understanding of myself, place and time - I have found that the examination of the minutiae all around us leads to beautiful discoveries.

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

"Glorious Minutiae" 2013
Water-based mixed media painting on canvas
8 inches by 10 inches

 

The Other Art Fair is getting closer

"And in the end" 2013
Mixed media and oil paint on canvas
24 inches by 35 inches (60 x 90 cm approx).
 

With less than a week to The Other Art Fair - the last of the large scale paintings is complete... I just hope we have good weather so the oil paint will be dry by next Thursday.

Little Big Adventure

"Little Big Adventure" 2013
24 inches by 36 inches
Mixed Media and Oil Paint on Canvas

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Floating world - work in progress

"Untitled (Floating World #1)".
Oil Paint & Mixed Media on Canvas
36 inches by 24 inches
Unfinished

"Untitled (Floating World # 2)"
Unfinished

 

 



"Untitled (Floating World # 2)"
Unfinished

 

I ♥ gold paint

"Little breezes, dusk and shiver" 2013
5 inches by 3.5 inches
Water-based / mixed media on card

A mixture of 'letting go' and carrying on...

Many of these small works on card get destroyed, some slip through. I have found this series of paintings a process of letting go and carrying on - sounds cathartic, well almost...either that or too much angst and white wine.

"Mist and dissolve (or Lo & behold until your eyes bleed from rubbing them)"  2013
5 inches by  3 inches
Water-based / mixed media painting on card

"It's just one thing after another" 2013
5 inches by 3 inches
Water-based / mixed media painting on card

"Finger-painting (no brushes were harmed during the making of this artwork)" 2013
5 inches by 3 inches
Water-based / mixed media painting on card

Paint, collage, ink etc

"I used to be a rolling stone... but I got better". 2013
Mixed media / Water-based media

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New for 2013

"Untitled"
2013
Water-based / mixed media painting on box canvas

 

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New work at the dawn of 2013

Water-based / mixed media on card

Untitled. Water-based media on card. 2012. 5 inches by 3 inches

 

Untitled (for Tom). Water-based media on card. 2012. 5 inches by 3 inches

 

 

Far East. Water-based media on card. 2012. 5 inches by 3 inches

 

Untitled. Water-based media on card. 2012. 5 inches by 3 inches

 

Cloud form #1.Water-based media on card. 2012. 5 inches by 3 inches

 

 

Untitled (waterfall). Water-based media on card. 2012. 7 inches by 5 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

re-Working

The way in which we view the world around us is not set in concrete; instead it changes depending on a wide range of circumstances.

My work tends to be realised through an amalgam of digital imagery, cardboard sculpture and painted elements, the status of which rises and falls depending on the context, but, all the while alluding to an ever shifting understanding of myself, place and time.
My current work revolves around re-Working previous motifs that questioned the nature of authenticity of material / medium within our contemporary culture of the copy.

Seymour 2012 - Digitally re-Worked of my oil painting Seymour, after Hans Holbien. 199 x 149 cm



re-Work

My Cousin Wellington  2012 - Digitally re-Worked painting - 199 x 149 cm

After Holbien 2012 - Digitally re-Worked painting (Portrait #1 Girl with an oven glove on her head, after Hans Holbien) - 199 x 149 cm

After Artemisia - Hey Jude 2012 - Digitally re-Worked mixed media projection - 199 x 149 cm