New collage

From time to time I will rumage through my sketchbooks, just to remember and look at ideas not pursued and waiting for the right time to be developed into new artworks. Although I am best known for seascape and landscape paintings there is a more conceptual and abstract side to my creativity which I love to explore. These artworks are a very personal response to memories, dreams, mythological stories and play, I love collage, I love the idea of recycling odd bits of paper and drawings, I also like to work in a digital medium with various subjects. I have many many sketchbooks but the last thing I want to do is to rip them up, rather they become the starting point to explore memory and nostagia.

 

 

Memory & Mythology No.1

 

 

 

New drawings

…. A whole bunch of new drawings and more to come …. having great fun with these, dipping in  and around lot’s of memories from the cycle tour ….

 

These first two are from our cycle tour of Eire – Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai The drawing is made of several pages from the same sketchbook attached and the drawing folds up into the sketchbook. This was a Moon lite walk along the beach close to where we were wild camping and the wreck is of the schooner ‘The Sunbeam’ built in 1860 and wrecked in a storm in 1903

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 104 cm 2023

 

Ros Beithe Contae Ciarrai Graphite and graphite wash ink and pencil on paper 27 x 52 cm 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…. Here is a link to my youtube channel for a short video of one of my many drawing books ….

 

 

New painting

Portheras Storm oil on canvas 77×153 cm 2022 £2500

 

New painting

Sol – The Sun Converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second releasing energy at the mass energy conversion rate of 4,26 million metric tons every second

The Sun has been doing this for around 4.6 billion years

 

A Storm is Coming

 

New painting

New Moon Comet Neowise and cirrus clouds after suset. Oil on canvas 80×90 cm 2022. £1800

 

New painting

Daughter of Theia Waxing Gibbous Moon, Cirrus Clouds After Sunset. Oil on canvas 80 x90 cm 2022 £1800

 

New painting finished

…. New painting finished a part of my artist in residence on Tresco Isles of Scilly November 2022 ….

 

 

Crescent Moon and Earth Shine. (Daughter of Theia) statue Menhir and Cirrus Clouds at Sunset looking South towards the Eastern Isles from Breckiek. Ynysek Syllan.

oil on canvas 80×90 cm 2022b £1800

New painting finished

….This is the third painting finished so far during my Artist in residence on Tresco Isles of Scilly ….

 

 

Daughter of Theia oil on canvas 80×90 cm 2022 £1800