Most of the time any really experimental works I do on canvas are painted over. At the moment most of the larger painting recently finished have several paintings under the top image. The reason is that the experiments are loose and uncontrolled attempts to divine the way mediums work rather than the representation of my […]

The final name for this new painting has not been decided but it will be one of those two above. I have written about this elsewhere (here) although I did not cover it with any depth. The surfaces and colors represent ancient cave and rock paintings. There are images from some caves and rock niches […]

For some reason the drawing for the Blue Turtle painting is not happening easily. The initial vision was to create an x-ray style of design inspired by Aboriginal Art. The next idea was a progression of that one. The people who did X-ray and tribal designs across the world drew things they had experienced and […]

Patch is the name of my mother’s little dog There are three canvasses making up this idea. The largest, The middle one, is 61cms x 51cms while the others are square at 51cm. The middle is the one shown and is a dog. I may add a small village or house and garden in a […]

It looks as though I have finished a small painting I am calling “Hunting Party”. Its one of the cave painting series. Acrylic on canvas. All oxide pigments. It seems to have interesting depth and life without the normal stages of pushing into the underpainting. It will sit around for a until I get past […]

The Fish is a large painting I have been working on for years. Now that I am feeling stronger the work seems to pass easily but the last couple of years I couldn’t even stand looking at it as it meant work I did not have the energy to face. It is all-but finished now […]