Tuesday, 5 July 2016

The Crocodile Under the Stairs - C.U.T.S series

A few different ideas for various paintings in this one with  a few tentaive working titles:
Acts of Cunning, Abuse and Treachery. 
Narcissistic Tendencies.
Mummy, Mummy, Money.

 Cunning on legs - Abuse & Male Loathing

Cunning on Legs - Death Trap

 The Silencer. 

Ideas for two paintings -  'Your House is on Fire...' and 'Fiddling While Rome Burns'. 
This drawing, will I think, eventually be turned into two paintings - split down the middle. The bird will I think be a kookaburra, laughing and carrying two children away from the burning house while the woman fiddles and her lover sits under a tree and the children's father is the tree's shadow... or buried under it...or its roots... or all the above...

 I love You / Blinded by the love. 
The one (above) is a cose up of the original (below) - Maybe less is more. Approx 5cmx7cm, acrylic on paper.



The Mask I: The Girl That Cried Wolf

The Mask II: Croc Tears and Tats - that's what this little girl is made of.

~ close up

The Crooked Horizon (with croc, tat, narcissus).

(Image forms and symbols - Skeleton, blue and brown. Fishnet tights, Narcissis flower, crocodile tears, see-through clothing, eye reflection of itself, mask, yellow (straw) hair, red tattoo with fingers crossed.... and 2 little ning-a-nings looking on.)

Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. 
In Crocodile Under The Stairs (C.U.T.S) the ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life, the cycles - have been disrupted, fractured, distorted, broken and destroyed. 
Enjoy.

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Little Yellow Bird (Beach baby series)

Beach Baby series - 'Little Yellow Bird 2'. August Approx 2016, 20cm x20cm 
A little Bird landed then flew away again.

First in the Beach Baby series - 'Little yellow Bird'. June-July 2016, Approx 35cmx45cm
Find the bird in the sky and the footprints in the sand. Make your own story.





Friday, 24 June 2016

Flower Garden by the Sea

   A colour study I decided was a completed painting. 
   Flower Garden by the Sea, Acrylic on A3 paper

Thursday, 23 June 2016

Muddy Waters 1 and 2


The murky waters of flooding nearby. These were imagined images in as much as I didn't use a particular photo i took of the floods (June 2016); it was more a melding of lots of images in my head. I just wanted to get the feel of brown waters flowing through the landscape. It is the first in what will be a series.


'Muddy Waters', acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

Angry baby love and Beach Babies.

 A series of sketches/drawings of angry babies and beach babies done on whatever I had handy at the time. Trying to capture cuteness, quirkiness and mostly mock anger in the faces of babies I know.






Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Pink Landscape

Pink Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 35cm
The pink landscape. Not sure about this one. I think it's a bit flat and i should have introduced yellows maybe, not just white to the red, as that would have given more depth. Oh well, next time!

Two Small Birds - August2019

~ Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and excitin...

Painting - landscapes, people, places