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no. 2 Back viewwatercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Reclining nude no.2watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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After Pousin's "Landscape with Diogenes"watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Male life no.1watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Reclining nude no.1watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Life watercolour portrait no.1watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Standing nude no.4watercolour - A1 (2010) |
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no. 1 Male back viewwatercolour - A1 (2010) |
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No. 3 Back viewwatercolour - A1 (2010) |
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Collaborating and contending, two Natures.oil on canvas - 72 x 34 inches (2010) |
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Johnny twitch, twitch... continuity drops a stitchoil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2010) |
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Motivated idylloil on canvas - 54 x 60 inches (2010) |
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Discotheque no.1oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2010) |
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Duende Discothequeoil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2010) |
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Accumulating Virtueoil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2010) |
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Bankers. I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of...oil on canvas - 72 x 48 inches (2010) |
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Apollo and Daphneoil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2010) |
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Knight passing by.oil on board - 96 x 60 inches (2010) |
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Angels, who distain to destroy us.oil on canvas - 60 x 52 inches (2009) |
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Pan and Syrinxoil on canvas - 60 x50 inches (2009) |
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Live thou foxoil on canvas - 38 x42 inches (2009) |
![2nd Metamorphosis - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>Metamorphosis</p><p>
<strong>"Here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyfe"<br />
</strong><em>Malory bk. xxi. v.</em>
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Turn and face <br />
the new race<br />
the stress to express,<br />
the urge to emerge <br />
from a dead and empty sheath.</p>
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<p>An emergency agency <br />
underneath<br />
peeling and revealing a transfiguration. </p>
<p>A poor shaman holds up the curtain.</p>
<p>Swathed in an old garment <br />
engrained with dust,<br />
encrusted <br />
with a chrysalis of neglect<br />
stained and bathed <br />
in contaminated ocean.</p>
<p>A divine cherub <br />
has the urge to emerge.</p>
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2nd Metamorphosisoil on canvas - 38 x 38 inches (2009) |
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2nd The urge to emergeoil on canvas - 42 x 36 inches (2009) |
![Acteon pursued by agents of his own curiosity. - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Acteon while hunting in the forest <br />
is separated from his companions.<br />
Searching for elusive hounds <br />
he stumbles into an unfamiliar clearing <br />
and, by chance, witnesses goddess Diana, <br />
Nature herself, <br />
bathing naked in a spring.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Here is the undiguised truth<br />
renewing herself at a source.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Affronted <br />
she changes Acteon into a stag<br />
so he is hunted by his own hounds</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Acteon\'s companions now engaged in this hunt <br />
call out "Where are you Acteon<br />
you are missing a wonderful chase."<br />
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<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Here is a parable about mankind\'s relation to nature<br />
about the consequences of seeing and knowing <br />
the truth.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Nature gets her revenge <br />
by using <br />
agents of man\'s own conscious pursuit and curiosity<br />
to retaliate against the interference of man; <br />
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Acteon pursued by agents of his own curiosity.- 72 x 30 inches (2007) |
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Life Drawings no. 2charcoal - Larger than A1 (2008) |
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Hand to Hand 1oil and charcoal on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2009) |
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Some Life Drawings, all bigger than A1.Charcoal - All bigger than A1 (2007) |
![Idealism & domesticity no. 1 - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The Shepherdess sustains and nurtures the real world domestic idyll.
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<p>The aspirant knight\'s vision turns to the Sun Absolute<br />
which beckons towards a quest in hollow armour<br />
to seek for the ideal;<br />
beyond the confined horizon of this sweet settled life.</p><p>
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From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Idealism & domesticity no. 1Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007) |
![Idealism & Domesticity no. 3 - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Shepherdess can you show me the way ?</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Wanderer you follow an intangible ideal;<br />
I can only show you a tangible idyll.</p><p>
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Idealism & Domesticity no. 3Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007) |
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Idealism & Domesticity no. 4oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2009) |
![Idealism & domesticity no. 2 - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The wanderer must appreciate and rest<br />
these fruits of domesticity are an episode in the quest. </div>
<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The Shepherdess\'s code might require<br />
he change his aspiration from ideal to idyll.<br />
That he might see the glories of creation are near as well as far<br />
and an enlightened knight become a settled squire.</p><p>
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<p>From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Idealism & domesticity no. 2Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007) |
![Abandoned Knight - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center;\'>This Knight has gone native.<br />
He has abandoned his quest and his principles.<br />
Subsequently, he is in his turn, abandoned.
<p>From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Abandoned Knightoil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2008) |
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Just passing through36 x 22 inches - 36 x 22 inches (2009) |
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Watercolour sketch no. 5watercolour - A1 (2008) |
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Watercolour sketch no. 4watercolour - A1 (2008) |
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Watercolour sketch no. 6watercolour - A1 (2008) |
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"Short pose sketches"Watercolour - All A1 (2008) |
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Back sketch 1watercolour - A 1 (2008) |
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back sketch 2watercolour - A 1 (2008) |
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An Abbotsbury Viewwatercolour - 26 x 20 inches (2008) |
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"Active Art" 2watercolour on cartridge paper - A1 (2008) |
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Sprawling Boy after Constable's "The Cornfield"oil on board - approx. 36 x 32 inches (2008) |
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Cartoon, from the parallel reality of Pinski van Dog- A 3 (2008) |
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Demonstration flowers in watercolourwatercolour - appox. 30 x 20 inches (2008) |
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Cartoon no. 2, from the parallel reality of Pinski van Dog- A 3 (2008) |
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Cartoon no. 3, from the parallel reality of Pinski van Dog- A 4 (2008) |
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Cartoon no. 4, from the parallel reality of Pinski van Dog- A 4 (2008) |
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"Active Art" watercolour 1watercolour on cartridge paper - A1 (2008) |
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Charcoal portraitcharcoal - 34 x 22 inches (2005) |
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"Active Art" 3watercolour on cartridge paper - A1 (2008) |
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Contained in the Stoneoil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2009) |
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nudecharcoal - 35 x 23 (2007) |
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Chivalric energy contained no. 2Oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2008) |
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untitled 2charcoal chunks, sticks, charcoal dust. - 47 x 23 inches (2007) |
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Portrait of Dave. Acrylic in the morning..., dry over lunchtime, oil paint in the afternoon on prepared paper. - 38 x 22 inches (2006) |
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Portrait of MartineAcrylic in morning, dry over lunch, oil paint in the afternoon on prepared paper - 34 x 22 inches (2006) |
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portraitSoft pastel on toned paper - 34 x 22 (2007) |
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Some A1 Life Drawingscharcoal - A1 s (2007) |
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Unfinished study of Amyoil on board - 48 x 30 inches (2009) |
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Woods below the grassy knollwatercolour - 20 x 15 inches (2009) |
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Boisterous Didicoyoil on canvas - 44 x 36 inches (2008) |
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Metamorphosis. "Here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff." Malory bk. xxi. v.oil on canvas - 38 x 38 inches (2008) |
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Knight's VigilOil paint on board - 96 x 96 inches (2007) |
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ManicheanCharcoal and chalk into oil paint on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2002) |
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Jacob & Angel 1Oil paint on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2007) |
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Titanic human problems, a political cartoon.Oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2007) |
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Diogenes, after PoussinOil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2007) |
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Dancers 2oil on acrylic on paper - 60 x 42 inches (2007) |
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Cagliostrooil on canvas - 44 x 36 (2008) |
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The Sheltered Roomoil on canvas - 66 x 48 inches (2008) |
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Beast emerging. (occult cartoon).pen & ink - A3 (2008) |
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Chivalry in Tranquillityoil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2008) |
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Shadow dance (occult cartoon)2002 - A 1 (2008) |
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Thou doll-like souloil on canvas - 44 x 36 inches (2008) |
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The Curtainoil on board - 96 x 48 inches (2008) |
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Artist and Model Reveal Themselvesoil on anvas - 42 x 28 inches (2008) |
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Benign Natureoil on canvas - 44 x 36 inches (2008) |
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Binding of ChristPhysical man inhibiting man of the imagination. Oil on board. - 104 x 56 inches (2008) |
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Centaursoil on canvas - 44 x 36 inches (2008) |
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Grail Maidenoil on canvas - approx. 42 x 30 (1989) |
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