Isles in the Sea

This is a collection of pieces that I have been working on from August to September. There are painted collages and soon the new paintings will be exposed on my blog.

Amassed Objects - September 07 - For Sale - £20

As it says it is a collection of objects, using the style of each piece of paper to make the overall impression of the symbolism.

Exposure - August 07 - For Sale - £15

More random pieces than you can shake a stick at. Blue is the colour and winning is the game.

For Suzanna, August 07 - Not for Sale

The images on this piece are all for Sue, including her interest in photography, art, motherhood and Jesus Christ, lets pray!

Hidden Beauty - September 07 - For Sale - £40

This is the sin to christ. A painted collage of a topless model and we all pray it stays hidden in the mixed up painted squares of my imagation.

Home - September 07 - For Sale- £15

A small piece of shaped collage of stamps and images of the home. Because home is where the heart is.

Isles in the Sea - August 07 - For Sale - £15.99

More Schwitters than you can shake a monkey at. Its all about being random and random being the object in this piece. More pieces than a pie. More puzzles than in the dark circles of the mind.

Items - August 07 - For Sale - £15.75

All items that make up the items of the items that are in the picture called Items.

OT - September 07 - For Sale - £25.98

The images are painted over and the words are blurred like a hangover. More over the images are changed into something new and exciting. Read on Mcduff...

Siby - September 07 - For Sale - £21.95

This is a new piece of furniture and its flatpacked. Who is Siby? Do you know a Siby. Does it have a life of its own?

Special Appointment - August 07 - For Sale - £29

Upperclass images from a bygone area make this piece of green very clean and nice on the eye. The religious side of tea, a victim will tell all.

Busy Street - August 07 - For Sale - £31

Every town, has its traffic rush and here is the street of shops. Raining and English.

Veined - September 07 - For Sale - £50

Painted pieces of collaged tomorrows taken from yesterdays images and made inot the future past. Roll-up! Roll-up! the eyes are watching us!

Colourful Rain in the Summer

Its been a really busy time for me recently, but that hasn't stopped me from producing new works of art. I have spent a while sorting out my sources and influences and have come up with some pieces that I am proud of. Towards the end of August beginning of September I will return to painting for a while.

'Scarlet Bride' - June 07 - For Sale - £35

This picture came from a magazine that I got out of a skip about weddings. I like the fact that it was not a white outfit that is more traditional.

'Joseph Turner' - June 07 - For Sale - £35

When I first came across Turner I was not impressed but I can understand the attaction in some of his work and for that I thought that it would be good to make him into a icon and accept that he is an influence after all.

'Turner's first job was as an assistant to an architect. At the age of fourteen he decided to become an artist, and began to study at the schools of the Royal Academy. His early work consisted of drawings and watercolours on paper; it was some years before he felt ready to start painting in oils.
Turner exhibited his first oil painting at the Royal Academy, Fishermen at Sea, in 1796, when he was twenty-one. Success came relatively early, and in 1803, at the age of twenty-seven, he began work on the spacious gallery in his house in Harley Street, which not only advertised his achievements but provided a more sympathetic setting for some pictures than the crowded walls of the Great Exhibition Room at the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, he continued to exhibit at the RA and, unlike a number of other British artists, he remained involved with the Academy throughout his career. He become an Associate Member in 1799, aged twenty-four, and a full Member in 1802, as well as being elected Professor of Perspective in 1811, and appointed acting President in 1845.
In his later life he began sending to the Academy exhibitions unfinished canvases which one contemporary described as being 'without form and void, like chaos before the creation'. He would then complete them in the exhibition room on Varnishing Days, virtuoso performances which soon became legendary'. from Tate Britain website.

'Colourful Rain' - June 07 - For Sale - £25

This is block of colour that make up the picture and for that it is raining.

'Ladyfaces' - June 06 - For Sale - £55

It has been a chance to use tinfoil again. I liked the pattern on the bottom girl's outfit. I used lots of colours to make this as bright as I could.

'Busy traffic at Dusk' - June 07 - For Sale - £40

It was an attempt to pass comment on the increase in traffic all over the world. This picture was taken in Italy. I like the banners of colour in the mosiac patterning.

'Decline and Fall of Mining' - June 07 - For Sale - £35

Drift mining and a politicial comment on the fall of mining in the UK.

'The Bride and her futuristic Groom' - June 07 - For Sale - £50

Another chance to use tinfoil and use a futuristic image to complement that style. The Bride came from the Bride Magazine. It was meant to have a sort of Black and white and silver effect.

'A Circle of Time' - July 07 - For Sale - £50

Going back to my use of watches in my pieces. Circles make a return as well.

'A view of the Heavens' - July 07 - For Sale - £50

A follow-on from the time piece and this time trying to be more colourful.

'Psycho Mafia' - June 07 - For Sale - £45

This piece was concieved when I saw the illustration in a magazine I obtained earlier this year about health. The title comes from an early Fall single and goes like this:

Spitting on the streets/Numb heads and feet/Nowhere to go/Won't let us in the shows
'Cos we talk about love/And the Psycho-Mafia/I'm talking 'bout love/And the Psycho-Mafia
No soul in the discos/No rock in the clubs/Won't let us in the pubs/And the city joys
Going on about love/And the Psycho-Mafia/I'm talking about love/And the Psycho-Mafia
Psycho-Mafia/Psycho-Mafia/'cho /Mafia/'cho Mafia.

'Dancing Faun' - July 07 - For Sale - £45

This is another chance to return to my interest in statues that use to feature in my poetry.

'Prophet of the World' - Aug 07 - For Sale - £50

This is all about the lack of Prophets in this world and how we need them more than ever. The Male image that I have used is meant to show how much of a state the world is in!

'Dream' - Aug 07 - For Sale - £35

This Schwitters for the 21st Century. Answers on a postcard!

Gray Ghost & Others

In this collection of new pieces I am returning to an early more simple style. It is a chance for me to re-invent myself and as life has been very busy for me it gives me the ease of producing work in a shorter space of time.







Mr Smooth - July 2007 - For Sale - £35

This piece I produced the night before the Exhibition in Holy Cross Church and took along on the chance that it might get displayed. I like the way that the body falls away to reveal only hands and that he is a very handsome man. I usually get told that I do too many pieces with woman in them and this was a chance to correct that ballance.

'Girlfriend' - July 07 - Not for Sale

This is a picture that I took last year of Kerry in a pub in Hove. As I have only ever done one other picture of Kerry, I thought that it was time to produce another.

'San Cristobal Youth' - Jan 06 - For Sale - £35

This piece was found when I was tidying my flat. It shows the youth of San Cristobal playing the trumpet which is their way of keeping out of trouble.

'Ice Cream' - July 07 - For Sale - £45

This is a picture that was used to advertise a certain type of Ice Cream. I always liked the image when it first came out. I was pleased when I discovered the advert in some magazines that I found in the street, because it gave me a chance to use the image and turn it into art.

'Gray Ghost' - July 07 - For Sale (framed) - £50

Gray Ghost is a blues musician and has been around since the 1920's. I found some information on the internet about him:

'...Although he had played around Austin and throughout the Southwest and nation since the 1920s, even much of the blues hardcore was unaware of Grey Ghost. Despite some rambling sections and others where rhythmic organization isn't a strong point, there's plenty of vintage boogie and good-natured barrelhouse playing and singing on this set. He wasn't among the greatest in the genre, but certainly belonged in the group close to the top...' ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide.

'Julianna's Wariness' - July 07 - For Sale(Framed) - £50

This shows an 80 year old lady who was weary of some visitors and was wondering about the invasion of her privacy. She lives in a remote area of mongolia and is a relative of Genghis Khan.

'Boatman' - July 07 - For Sale - £35

This is an image of a boatman who takes tourists down the three gorges, which is part of the Yangtze. It looks to be a bit of a dangerous job, but then someone has to do it!

'The Model' - July 07 - For Sale - £20

I have always wondered if I could use a picture where the photograph had been taken with part of the head missing. It seems to be fashionable to take close ups of the face and miss out part of the top of the head. In this piece, which I must say that I am very pleased with, it is possible to use such an image.

'Forever' - July 07 - For Sale - £20

Another in the series where the top of the head is missing. I like the force of attention on this piece where it is the tattoo which says forever, hence the title of the piece.

Arts & Craft Exhibition

As part of the Poets Corner Summer Festival Family Fun Day on Saturday 14th July 2007, I exhibited 4 pieces of my work. I composed a piece called "Paris, France" as the Festival theme this year is French. One piece, Mr. Smooth was done only a few nights before. 'Girlfriend' was also produced a few days before. 'Three Ladies" was damaged on the way home and has been destroyed. I will be composing another piece with the same theme in the very near future.

Window of Time

Here is the first entry since adding all my preivous blogs from the AOL journal.

All these collaged pieces have not used the mosaic patterning that I am known for and I have attempted with a few of the new pictures to attempt to use other techniques.




1. 'Old Havana' - June 07 - For Sale - £40

This piece is the first where I have used tissue paper to give some depth to the piece and another type of texture. The title comes from the map that is pasted into the piece and it also uses a lot of thicker pieces of paper from books.





2. 'Icarus of Modern Times' - June 07 - For Sale - £35

This is a follow on from 'Jesus of Modern times' that I constructed last year. I like the fact that this modern day Icarus has glass wings that show the clouds of the sky. This is a painted called the Lament of Icarus by Herbert James Draper and shows him after going to close to the sun and falling from the sky. This pictures I used to have on my desk when I work at Mercury and I used to look at it alot when I was on a difficult call. I love the symbolism of Icarus and what it stands for.

3. 'Rude Beauty' - June 07 - For Sale - £45

This is a piece that I constructed to show just how much the female image is exploited in modern advertising and just how easy it is to sell products with a nice image of the female beauty. Also it seems that to be a topless model is an easy way for girls to make a lot of money in the 21st century and just how many would rather do that, than consider a career in banking.

4. Half Sisters - June 07 - For Sale - £40

My clever idea for this piece was to take the same image slice it into two and then give the impression that it was two different people due to a change in height. Lets hope that it worked.

5. 'Window of Time' - June 07 - For Sale - £35

This is a piece that is mainly constructed from images from home design book. There are also images from a famous clock and of men. All told it is about how short our 'window of time' really is on this planet. So make the most of it!

6. 'Zagros' - June 07 - For Sale - £55

This larger piece is made from torn strips of paper to make the overall picture. Most of the pieces use a the colour yellow and images from Japan. The title comes from Iraq's largest moutain range. I wanted it to look like a space where lots of poster had been pasted and over time they had been torn down to leave this lasting images.

7. 'First 101' - June 07 - For Sale - £45

This started off as a simple collage without much meaning and has ended up as a medition on sex and religion. Which are also a tag team having a fight in life. It is interesting how the religion trys to suppress sex outside of marriage. Priests abstaining, is just one example.

8. 'Community' - June 07 - For Sale - £50

I work as a volunteer in the 'volunteer and community sector', so, I decided to create my own multicultural society. As I believe that there is an increase in the towns and cities that are becoming very multicultural. It will of course end up with a multicultural world.

Poets Corner Summer Festival

I have now transfered all information from my aol account and will be placing new pieces on this site in the next two weeks. I am also very heavily involved in the Poets Corner Summer Festival and if you care to check out their website on the following link:

www.poetscornerfestival.wikispaces.com

1. Domestic Goddess - Aug 06 - For Sale - £50

This is an image of Nigella Lawson who is a famous chief and married to Charles Saatchi. She has been quoted as saying that she feels comfortable in her body and that she realises that she is no Kate Moss size 0 model. I am pleased that she is paving the way forward for women of her size and also I love her smile in this picture.

For more information on Nigella log onto http://www.nigella.com/

2. Weaver 9 - Jan 07 - For Sale - £35

This is the first image that I have done in while that uses my traditional mosaic patterning. The reason for the title is that there are nine shapes and they weave across each other to create the finished pattern.

3. Daytrip Siteseeing - April 07 - For Sale - £45

This is a collection of images that give a feeling of being near a seaside town. It maybe possible that when you go to this imaginary seaside town that you may see David Bowie as 'Ziggy Stardust'. The smiling lady in the middle left was comforting her child and you can see that happiness in her smile.

5. 'Rizons' - May 07 - For Sale - £30

The title of this piece comes from 'Horizons' and it is is all about what you could see if you look out over a busy town.

6. 'La Bella Figura' - May 07 - For Sale - £45

The title means 'beautiful figure' and I have applied it to this Italian Soldier. I love his uniform with sword and white gloves. It is a miltary uniform for display only and he stands to attention like most of his countrymen.

7. 'Naked Seaside' - May 07 - For Sale - £60

This is a busy seaside that has three semi-naked sunbathers in it. The seasides of European countries are becoming more and more populated with topless or even naked english girls.

8. 'Tense, Nervous, headache' - May 07 - For Sale - £45

Apart from being the title of an album by Boy George this was used in an advertising campaign in the 70's/80's and refers to a mirgraine. In the picture that I have used from 1968 it shows how the vibration of the headache effects all the sound around the person.

8. 'Weathered Coimbra Statue' - May 07 - For Sale - £45

Coimbra is a city in Portugal. The municipality has a population of 148,443 inhabitants in a 319.4 km² land area, and over 430,000 inhabitants live there. I used the image because I am interested in the weathering of statues and other outdoor sculptures.