Envy

Envy

5x5"

Digital

This is one of 30 illustrations I am doing for a book.

The title is exactly what it represents,

although this is one of the first and has since been edited a little.

Dancer

Dancer

14x10 digital

A ghost like figure swings from a tree, the night is hallucegenic.

Surrounded by black makes it strange, is someone looking through a window?

Walking the Dog

Walking the Dog.

acrylic on canvas

24 x 24"

Yes it has been a while, but I have been completing illustrations for a book.

Influenced by suddenly deciding to paint some walls in the house, an orange-

red colour.(Actually looks nice) and a lot of walking with my dog Lola.

Taking a welcome break from time schedules. I liked it when it was finished,

it was refreshing.

Daybreak

Daybreak

20x18"

acrylic

A mixtures of blues and levels, different stages of light in a winter daybreak.

The paint has been scratched all over with spirals, representing clouds and sun.

In a way I suppose its a psychological theme that also represents

my creative block as is it lifting.

A Blank Canvas

The canvas is blank and the mind is blank

More art soon

Eternity

Eternity
11"x 8"
Digital

I have been working on some digital illustrations for a book, which has kept me away from the easle somewhat. During much needed breaks from the continous, I made a few digital images just to open my mind. Eternity is one of them, the life repeating cycles over and over again.

Neverending circles. The colours represent the mundane.

Trance Music

Trance Music

12"x12"

digital media/acrylic

POA

Inspired by listening to some techno/trance music. I found it quite hypnotising and enjoyable. Closing my eyes I imagined the dancers, rooted to the spot but moving to the beat

I liked the images I produced, this being one, of which the colours I liked, which represented the depth of the music. I may take this further into a series of images.

Eclipse

Eclipse

Charcoal on paper

24"x18"

I love to work with charcoal, its so free and easy.

It welcomes large bold marks and differing shades.

It is also very expressive.

The subject is self explanatory

Heart

Heart

Digital

10"x10"

In this moment I have unfinished work on the easle and have been cocentrating more on digital imagery. Probably due to the fact that I am trying to illustrate a book. so have been captured in the digital mould. Heart is about love and its transparencies, in our everyday life.

Eternity

Eternity

Digital Image

9"x9"

Creative block has kicked in, so the least I can do is try to stimulate my creativity through the use of digital imagery. Eternity represents the repetition of life, at times boring at times safe and at other times unknown. seek and you will find, inspiration? no.....sometimes our surroundings absorbs it from us, and we show our worl to those who have no voice. Ah, but tomorrow is another day, and I would love to hear a comment from anyone out there??

Summer Nights

Summer Nights

22"x10

Acrylic on board

The fading of summer and those hot sultry nights, at times so hot, that you welcome a cool temperature, The colour of the landscape doesn´t change much here, with the passing of the seasons. The hottest time has faded. The reds and hot colours relate to the time of year illustrating the peak summer.

Rest

REST
watercolour on paper
9x9"

Based on a drawing of an orchid, and the colours washed outwith a further piece of detail added.
It is a small piece as it had only been a study sketch, but at times the mind sees other things or meanings, and this is what happened here. I think this became a sub conscious image telling me to rest, after acouple of weeks of feeling unwell.

Tribute

Tribute

Aug 2008

Watercolour manipulated on computer

Overwhelmed by the tragic Spanair aircrash, my thoughts turned to all the people still waiting for their lost ones to be returned to their final resting place. The sadness of it all and my own feelings of this sad event, caused me to create this piece as my own tribute,to the pain and suffering of those touched by this terrible accident.

Forms

FORMS

Charcoal & lead pencil

sorry its been a while, creative block and not to mention getting married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here we have forms, taken from the beach, natural and and enticing------------------for me anyway. Executed in charcoal and 4b pencil.

The forms represent the family unit that is breaing down, this work will be continued

Luna 1

Luna 1

acrylic/canvas

2¨x2¨

I will admit that I have been suffering a creative block and hopefully now I am emerging, too many things to do at this moment. But I am sure we all know that feeling in one way or another.

I present to you a small black and white design I did for someone, it was part of a triptych and quite plain. representing the moon phases over a month.

Volcanic Energy

Volcanic Energy

14x20

charcoal and acrylic

Lost for inspiration, I took a drive to the volcanoes, where with a struggle I managed to make this piece from several sketches taken there.

It wasn¨t a good piece , as is anything produced in an inspirational block, but it was somethng that has since been destroyed. Sometimes the lack of inspiration is daunting, for me its better not to produce than produce second rate ideas

Neurons

Sorry the incorrect picture was pasted here in error,the original will be uploaded shortly

I love to work in black and white sometimes, its so versatile.

This picture came about when I was delving for ideas for a set of 3 black and white canvases someone has ordered from me.

This is not one of them,

but grew whilst searching ideas,

it´s called neurons as it developed straight from the head!

Television

TELEVISION

Mixed Media

2008

2´x 1´

Ah, the machine that change our lives. The instrument of time and at times lies & fantasy.

The colour portrays the security and need for ones television. The comfort zone, the soap opera,´what is happening in the outside world. The reliance on the "Box" that may lead us into the "twilight zone" leaving behind life as it is.

Good Thoughts

Good Thoughts

Acrylic on Board (2´x1´)

Having been a little inactive, the sun arrived and lit my inspiration. The picture is based on warm and tender thoughts. I kind of dedicate this to HH Dalai Llama, as I have been reading about and watching him on the television.Now I am not sure whether it was the sun or he that insired me. Maybe they are one of the same.

On Reserve

Words

Words

16x10

Digital Image

A little bit of digital work, as have had an inspiratonal block. Geuss it´s too many ideas swimming around in my brain. But this piece is inspired by the amount of letters I need to write. I love to recieve letters, emails are great and fast, but there is nothing like the art of letter writing. So here you have it.