Fence Sitters

Fence Sitters 1: almost complete. Acrylic on canvas, approx 45cmx30cm

Owly Eyes

INDIEOWL: The beautiful little Spotty Red Caped Owl (or PET as it is often referred to - an acronym of its botanical name, Petulantea Energetica Tawnnii) was until recently thought to be extinct, as the last sighting was around a year ago when bird watchers claim to have seen a poacher capture one. It has a sweet but determined nature, as its name suggests. However, in recent times it has been sighted again on a few separate occassions, much to the joy of 'Friends of PET', a group dedicated to the reintroduction of this unusual caped bird to its natural habitat. It is believed that owl can suddenly turn on, and use its sharp talons to defend itself from captors and those HOOM it perceives to be its enemies.

Kids & Other Portraits, plus a Dream Home...

Bird Watching: Looking for Bird (Qua'Quacks) With Grompa.

Bird Watching

 Robert Smith for Babies

 The Sacrifice 3

 The Sacrifice 2

 The sacrifice 1: Hanging in the Balance

 The porridge Eaters

The Baby

 Elie Weisel

Steve Kilby, The Church (band)

In Every Dream Home

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three drawings done on 'google chat' whilst taklking to the person in the middle portrait, and when I had no drawing materials handy - 1) Self-portrait, 2) portrait of someone I was chatting too', 3) 'two birds with one stone'. Maybe it's realy all one big portrait or a triptych - part of the same story anyway! 

Two little birds - drawings and studies

  Two little birds. Pen on 5cmx7cm paper. I put a small bird flying off into the left top corner of the first drawing and I called it 'Bird on a string'.

 Not sure how it works, probably should have left the bird out and still called it that, and it it would have worked just as well with the second drawing. It looks a bit cluttered now.

 

The second drawing is called 'kol-ok, kol-ok' which translates as 'captured bird'.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Completed portrait of Henry David Thoreau

WIP: getting there - Portrait of Henry David Thoreau.

 

This is a study and drawings made for what will become a portrait of Henry David Thoreau.

Acrylic on A4 and pen on A3 paper

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.