Shaped

A bag of sweets? Online dating? - All a mixed bag.

This collage incorporates sections of an old poster advertising a concert of Vivladi’s Quatre Saisons.

My version of a beautiful large portrait painting of three women, painted in Whistler-like greys and whites.

The base layer of this painting is a deconstructed pastel and ink collage I did in Gdańsk in 1988 called Birdie Break-out. The shape is reminiscent of the icons I saw trawling the churches of Poland and Russia in the early nineties.

Reminiscent of later work by Georges Braque - his post Cubism paintings and collages.

Cherry. Moons.

Heavily worked and detailed, overlaid with gold pastel and paint.

This piece is the first of the diptych Tipple and Topple. Both came out of a revisited  2005 painting called Sweet Shop. Deconstructed, reconstructed and overpainted, they illustrate a playfulness characteristic of much of my work.

This piece is the partner toTipple. Both came out of a revisited  2005 painting called Sweet Shop. Deconstructed, reconstructed and overpainted, they illustrate a playfulness characteristic of much of my work.

The base layer of this painting is entirely made up of maps of Africa. Just one tiny piece is taken from another continent.

This used to be a vertical painting, the earlier version being Zaspa Flats, painted in 1999 in Poland. Returning to the piece in sunnier Devon, I first turned it on its side, then coated it in Cerulean Blue, stencilling out half-circle shapes. Thanks to You, Martin B is an acknowledgement to Martin Bedford, friend and artist who loved the colour!

Scottish winters, when do they end? …. A reference also to the rhythms of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. This is the first half of the diptych with Rites of Spring.

A celebration of a long-awaited glimpse of spring in Scotland. …. And reference to the rhythms of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. This is the second part of the diptych with Dreams of Spring.

My Hungarian friend Eszther named this painting.

Stone-like colours emanating from faded paper layers; rough textures and patterns from a base of corrugated card.