Conceptual Art

Pigeons., Rock doves, they're watching us, you know that, right. Acrylic on canvas 60cms x 44cms (24 inches x 17.5 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

More hands. I'm enjoying oils, this is painting number 6 in oils I think. Oil on canvas 60 cms x60cms. Price includes packaging and postage to the UK and Europe

I love roller skating, apart from the smashing into the floor bits. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life in the last couple of years. This painting is a small homage to my growing obsession with it. Acrylic on canvas 56cms x 56cms (22 inches x 22 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Ethereal, magical, every one holding a rainbow. They sting quite a bit though if they get in your eye. 70cms x 50cms (27.5 inches x 19.5 inches). SOLD.

The monkey god. Reminding me of both the monkey mind chattering away constantly in my thoughts and my essential primate nature. A companion of Rama, one of the seven immortals and a central character in the Ramayana. The God of wisdom, strength, courage, devotion and self-discipline. He holds a light up to aspire to. When I was a teenager the program "Monkey" was on the TV weekly, it was a heroes tale loosely based on Hanuman, I always made sure I caught it. I also have a memory of visiting a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Hampi when I was in India. We were there late at night, lying on the still warm rock shelf, I heard a noise of something beating on the rocks and then about fifty monkeys ran over the top of us, jumping over us as they passed, pretty amazing. 60cms x 60cms (24 inches x 24 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

I'm fascinated by hands. My life is dominated by what I can do with my hands. The people I admire most (or a great deal of them) create something with their hands that touches my heart somehow. In a creative sense the hands are the tools of the mind, bringing conceptual thought into manifest reality. Oil on canvas 76cms x 51cms. Prices include packaging and postage to the UK and Europe.

Dream type image of butterflies in the forest. Acrylic on canvas 60cms x 60cms (24inches x 24inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Playing with silhouettes and pastel shades. Acrylic on canvas. 60 cms x 60 cms (24 inches x 24 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Forest silhouette. Sitting quietly in the forest, you just don't know who might be watching you. Framed drawing on paper. Ink on paper 50cms x 40cms (19.5 inches x 15.5 inches) unframed. Including Birchwood frame 64cms x 54cms (25 inches x 21 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

A large male chicken on an azteccy background. Don't be vulgar.... Acrylic on canvas 100cms x 70cms (39.5 inches x 27.5 inches).  Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

More dream forest, this time in dream autumn. Acrylic on canvas. Can't remember how big they are. SOLD.

I love all this Marvel/DC Comics stuff, I'm not obsessive about it but it's a fun bit of fantasy world meets real world, super hero/villain, have a massive scrap with crazy archetype characters. Anyway the Green Goblin was laugh, who knows what he was so upset about. Stan Lee was a genius. Acrylic on canvas 91.5cms x 60cms (36 inches x 24 inches approx.). SOLD,.

Cats appearing from cell type droplet structures eyeing up some by standing balls of wool also in cell type droplet structures. I don't think any further explanation is necessary. Makes perfect sense. Acrylic on canvas 100cms x 70cms (39.5 inches x 27.5 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

I painted this abstract background and then this juxtaposition of viewpoints came to mind so I put it down as best I could. Acrylic on canvas 100cms x 40cms (39.5inches x 16 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

A thought on how to represent the subconscious mind. I was thinking of ancients and ancestors, of wisdom and the characters of tumbling thoughts. I know... Anyway fun to paint. This was one of them that I did a big chunk on it and then put it aside for a while before getting it to a finished result. I stuck to pretty much blues and reds just for the hell of it. Acrylic on canvas 75cms x 75cms. Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

I was thinking about the horror of war and how as we go back into the past of my grandfather and great grandfathers generation how unprotected soldiers were on the battlefield. I imagine myself in that situation, I was lucky to not have to go to war and I count myself lucky to have been refused entry to the military when I applied to get in when I was 18, had I been accepted things may have panned out differently. Soldiers are brave, I admire their bravery, in war they skirt the edge of death, life is uncertain and I imagine that the temporary nature of living must be felt raw and fully at the surface of  soldiers' being. Acrylic on canvas 57cms x 57cms (22.5 inches x 22.5 inches).  Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Abstract in greens and reds. Is it art deco? Sort of, maybe. I like it's upward flow and it conjures the feeling of a rolling landscape for me in some respect. The greens and reds come across as warm and calm to me. Acrylic on canvas 60 cms x 60 cms. Price includes postage and packaging to the UK and Europe.

If I ever learn to scuba dive my dream destination would be the Californian kelp forests. It seems like it would be a truly other wordly and magical place. Acrylic on canvas 60cms x 60cms (24 inches x 24 inches), sorry original no longer available. SOLD.

I've been enjoying doing hand studies, here's one of them. Thee background demanded hands working in bushes, hence the subject matter. The caterpillar is a bit invented I admit. Oil on canvas 76cms x 61cms. Price includes packaging and postage to the UK and Europe. SOLD

Pulled from my imagination. With my hands I have formed my life, with them I've made music, juggled, made art, lifted, carried, worked, fought, climbed, conveyed physical tenderness and myriad other things. Their the part of myself I know best physically, the part that cross my vision more than any other part of my body. When I think of "doing something" most of the time I mean doing something with my hands. Acrylic on canvas 80cms x 60cms (31.5 inches x 24 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

How do you get better at stuff you think your weak at? Practice, that's how, so that's what I'm going to do. Hands are a bit hit and miss for me, ranging between nailing it and missing the nail and smashing the hammer into my thumb. So I got this one I think, more hand based paintings on the way. Oil on canvas 80cms x 60cms. Price includes packaging and postage to the UK and Europe

This painting reminds me of my niece, it's not of my niece but it reminds me of her. She's wonderful. Acrylic on canvas 80cms x 60cms (31.5 inches x 24 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Too crazy to paint over. Too interesting to just be a background. Maybe I'll call it "strangers brush shoulders at a midnight diner" or something. Acrylic on canvas 70cms x 50cms. Price includes packaging and postage to the UK and Europe.

You just don't know what's out there or in there.... Acrylic on canvas 76cms x 60cms (30 inches x 24 inches). Prices include postage to the UK and Europe.

Where does inspiration come from and what does it produce? Yesterday the main fuse in my house tripped out and I had no electricity. I had no access to reference photos on my computer. I got bored of waiting for my electricity provider to phone back so I made marks on a canvas for a while. In between other stuff after the electric came back on I kept digging at it. By midnight this has happened. Acrylic on canvas 60cms x 60 cms. Prices include postage and packaging to the UK and Europe.