This page showcases the works that stand out for me this year. As the year progresses, pieces will be added and, as I set an arbitrary limit of four a year, some will be taken away.
My selections for previous years are linked to at the bottom of the page.
Black Sun, Cemex
I struggled with this print for months. What began life as a multi-block colour print became more simplified as I worked on it. Superfluous items were discarded and the decision to have a black sun, whatever that may signify, resulted in a print I am satisfied with..
Sensing
This linocut was made for an exhibition. The theme was "5 Senses" and the print grew out of that. It's a bunch of ideas that I'd stored away in my mind over the last few years. I didn't realise I had all these sensuous things until I had the opportunity set them loose.
Fallen from Olympus III
This linocut is the middle of a series of five. I draw people when I'm sitting looking after an exhibition. I was also wondering if there was anything I could make from them. I liked the idea of reusing some of the small postcard-sized prints I make from time-to-time. In this latest exhibition was a friend's piece that made use of an ornate frame. This gave me a thing that allowed me to link viewer and artwork and also to connect the works in the series. It's also one of my artistic superpowers that I can remove people's clothes just by looking at them....
Lette Matrimoniale
Seven local artists had a show in a bed shop in town the last couple months. When the idea was first mooted I felt I wanted to do some bed pictures. This is the first one. I have a couple of other ideas in my head which may or may not turn into some more. I love the ambiguity of this one. Is she being playfully seductive, or has she just woken with a start, or is it coyness...
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