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"What Lies Beneath "
Oil on Canvas 40 x 50 cm
£250.00
‘ Her patches are of every cut
For pimples or for scars
Here’s all the wandering planet’s signs
And some of the fixed stars
Already gummed to make them stick
They need no other sky ‘
A work for the Sarum Artists' exhibition "A Flawed Pearl"
"They're not one of us"
Oil on canvas. 16" x 20"
£100.00
“They’re not one of us” is the cry of the people who want to hold on to attitudes, no matter how flawed. They use the call for “Unity” to attack dissenters, non-conformist, outcasts, outsiders and refugees. And, why do those defenders of their culture always seem to hide behind silly costumes?
A work for Sarum Artists' exhibition "Unity". My starting reference is Masaccio’s fresco,” The Expulsion from Eden”. Adam and Eve are the original refugees, forced out of their homeland by an uncompromising and uncompassionate authority and made to wander the world as outcasts.
"The Carousel at Le Grand Bornand 1 & 2."
Oil on canvas. 50 x 20 cm
£60 the pair
Inspired by a wonderfully surreal carousel that I sketched in the Alpine home of the famous Reblochon cheese of Haute-Savoie(with a few added rides).
550 Shades of Pachyderms
16" x 12"
Pastel on paper
2015
£50.00
A work that took less than a week, from an idea in the middle of the night to its framing.
Why can't they all be like that?
"A Land of Milk and Honey?"
16" x 12"
Oil Pastel on paper
2016
£100.00
Work for Sarum Artists next exhibition "Shades of Summer".
The idea behind the painting has been lurking for some time, ever since the awful images of the tragedies in the sunny Mediterranean began appearing in the media. First from Libya, then the Aegean, and now off our own shores. People fleeing their opressive and poor countries to try and reach the mythical lands of "Milk and Honey".
After “Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol”. Giovanni d'Alemagna. C1442.
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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