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.

Floating World #3

This painting is about (amounst other things) pictorial space.



"Floating World 3#" 2013
24 inches by 35 inches
Mixed media and oil paint on canvas

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Pushing collage!

"Untitled (Winter with green cushion)" 2011

"Oh Cripes (after Thomas Gainsborough)" 2011

"Stop! Hammer Time" 2011

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