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..
Fallen from Olympus III
This linocut is one of a series of eight. 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...
Paradise Lost
This linocut started from a couple of life drawings. I put the two figues together (they were drawn on different days) and they seemed to be reacting to something. Hence the billowing curtain. And the still life with bitten apple, because, well two naked people. And the bottom left hand corner. I did it like that because I didn't want to end in a hard line, but I love how its almost as if their world is starting to crumble...
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