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top to bottom :

1. Etruscan Rites.

(collage, pencil, watercolour, on paper . 40x50 cms )

2. Buffalo Soldier.

(oil on canvas, 130x90 cms )
3. Untitled.

( oil on canvas, 114x146 cms )

4. Japan. #1.

(122x122 cms )

5. Lenin's Dream.

(114x146 cms )




" What we do not make conscious , later emerges as fate." ( Jung )

Over the years i have acquired a modest reputation as a painter of eccentricities ,

whether it be dream related surrealist fantasies , in a figurative style or collage ,

made up for the most part, of imagery which provokes a response.

If we were to assign left and right brain function, we could say that the figurative is left brain,

requiring a methodical approach, attention to composition , colour theory and so on,

collage being right brain,i.e. spontaneous intuitive, a game without rules.

So by oscillating periodically from one mode to the other i feel i am creating a balance,

both within the brain and ona more fundamental level, the psyche.

For mr this is the therapeutic value of the creative act and a way of understanding,

( albeit in retrospect ) the development of the self toward individuation.

In recent years i have displayed my work in public places not normally associated with 'Art'.

For example, in cinemas, record shops, hospitals and office buildings.

I believe 'art lovers' want to touch and smell the work. To examine it in their own time.

To be surrounded by, not simply in front of. Not to be passive onlookers,

but emotionally involved and implicated.

In response to these demands i am trying to create a vision without boundaries,

when right and left brain , the frivolous and heartfelt, the bizarre and the commonplace,

intermingle, forming a composite whole.

" And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh "

( Nietzche )

Paintings above :

1. Etruscan Rites. 40 x 50 cms.....gouache/pencil

2. Buffalo Soldier. 135 x 95 " ....oil on canvas

3. Sunday Morning 114 x 145 " ....oil on canvas

4. J.T.B. - Kyoto - 132 x 132 " ....mixed media

5. Lenin's Dream 114 x 146 " ....oil/collage