Half time teaching job at Kingston College and 5-ft canvasses taken out into the landscape in the back of an estate car and strapped to easels and trees.
The ones that worked were usually done in one shot. Using waxy, almost encaustic type paint medium, on un-primed sized cotton duck.
Françoise pregnant with latecomer 4th child, a boy!
Self Portrait
Oil painting, Impressionism and the Fauves ... at the Slade working from the life model ... studied Cézanne with Lawrence Gowing .. married Françoise. More...
Jonah and the Whale
Influenced by my brother, Paul Pagk and his friends working in Paris ... Biblical narratives sometimes used at a church we attended at the time. More...
Richmond Park
Teaching at Kingston College ... 5-ft canvasses strapped to easels and trees ... usually done in one shot ... waxy paint on cotton duck. More...
Two x Two
Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard ... “water and dreams” ... abstracted paintings based on watercolours and photos of kids toys ... washing, pouring, painting in Alkyd paint and wax painting sticks ... had a band called Skrawl. More...
Standing Male Marionette
Founded the MonkClub ... made a vinyl 10-inch album My World ... marionettes ... mono-printing on Japanese paper ... coming to terms with loss of family in the Holocaust ... a journey back to a renewed Christian faith ... made Puppet album. More...
Still Life
Painter’s mannequin, Sicilian Pupo, drapes, flowers (usually dead), basketball boots ... arbitrary arrangements on paint spattered studio floorboards ... on new album of songs ... friends sometimes pose ... smaller brushes ... hidden narratives ... however you paint, paint is with love! More...
