Gallery
written in water
(2016)Paintings of and about light, reflections, ripples, and the busy life of water.
dream beings
(2014)images from the subconscious
The William Blake Experience
(2012 - 2016)Illustrations to William Blake's Songs of Innocence & of Experience (1794). Blake was a visionary poet, and though his 'Songs' appear simple they open up a world of meaning, exploring the 'Two contrary states of the human soul'.
Marrakesh
(2012)reactions to a short stay in an extraordinary city
nature 2011-12
(2011 - 2012)oil,acrylic and watercolour paintings of the world etc.
the turn of the leaf 2011
(2011)'leaf-print paintings' that celebrate autumn and the inexhaustible intricacy of nature. Zooming in on them is recommended. Have fun!
Unbounded, new work 2010
(2010)The pictures in this group are expansive and meditative in spirit. They seek to communicate sensations and states of feeling directly, without any clearly represented object.
people and animals 2005-10
(2003 - 2010)these paintings of people, life situations, and animals, are about the pathos and drama of existence. The way we are close to one another yet at the same time so unfathomable.
tree sequence 2010
(2010)variations on trees
nature 2009-10
(2009 - 2010)reactions to nature and landscape (2009-10)
The depth of the surface: a photographic sequence
(2009 - 2010)This sequence of photographs is about the great paradox of the mysterious life of dead matter, the intangibility of tangible objects, the colourfulness of the grey. New forms emerge from ordinary things, refinement from rough, hard, scarred surfaces.The pictures play with scrap metal, meditate on the boundlessness of the finite. Shown at Galerie de Opsteker in Amsterdam 2-2010 (see ‘Exhibitions’).
watercolours 2006-9
(2006 - 2009)watercolours
'abstract' landscapes 2008
(2008)reality taking shape
'family snaps' '03-10
(2003 - 2010)These photo-paintings, pictures of pictures, reflect on the past, memory, and how we dream our lives. They are also meditations on photography, its poetry, melancholy and magic.
down to earth 2007-8
(2007 - 2008)paintings (oil and acrylic) inspired by landscape, weather, the senses.
water, light, nature 2003-7
(2003 - 2006)paintings of light, air, water, reflections, the feel of how it is to be there.
rocks and mountains '04-5
(2004 - 2005)rough rocky landscapes in Wales and Tunisia
still-lifes and animals
(2005 - 2006)life and death
photo-stories
(2006 - 2007)Playful interactions of culture and nature. The photographs of 'The Crossing' can be put together in a (cross-shaped) collage.