Chronology 1975-2016
The Student Years
Girl in Room
1975 left boarding school for Amersham College. Oil painting, Impressionism and the Fauves.
1978 The Slade, drawing and painting from the life model. Studied Cezanne with Lawrence Gowing.
1980 Married Françoise. Degree show 1982, paintings of Françoise pregnant with Charlotte. More…
New Image
Jonah and the Whale
New Image as I left the Slade. Visited Paul Pagk painting in Paris. Returned to make large cotton duck canvasses stretched on rough brick walls in Richmond shop basement. Paintings often inspired by Biblical narratives and sometimes used at my local church services. More…
Observation / Figuration
Richmond Park
Part-time teaching job at Kingston College. One-shot paintings done directly in the landscape on 5 ft. canvasses strapped to easels and trees. Thick, waxy paint medium, on sized cotton duck. Françoise pregnant with latecomer 4th child, a boy! More…
Abstraction
2 x Two
Increasingly abstracted paintings based on watercolours and photos of kids’ toys. Czech marionettes and mono-printing marks on Japanese paper printed without a press. More abstract paintings…
Puppet
Standing Male Marionette
Working on new album of songs recorded in painting studio. Painting from from direct observation, figures and Puppet-like characters. Puppet paintings…
2000-2016
Twilight
Mainly working from objects ie; painters mannequin, Pupo from Sicily, decorative drapes, flowers (usually dead), basketball boots. All in somewhat arbitrary arrangements often accumulated on paint spattered studio floorboards. More …
