Paintings for the living room

White Figures – bright masses in a dark core Painting on canvas compresses white masses into a dark vertical core running down the middle of a grey field spilled with runs: wall art whose title promises figures the canvas never delivers. Technique and texture The ground is thinned and led […]

Steel and Turquoise – a rusted cross on a cold ground Painting on canvas rivets a rusted vertical column to two horizontal arcs into a shape that recalls a cross — wall art that keeps the memory of a decayed facade without ever depicting one. Technique and texture The colour […]

Turquoise Mesh – blue and green blocks Painting on canvas latches blue, turquoise and green blocks into a loose mesh that thickens toward the lower edge — modern painting whose grid is deliberately out of true everywhere you look for a right angle. Technique and texture The blocks are set […]

Night Burst – a blue block and black throws Abstract painting cleaves a cream field with a dark blue rectangle occupying the lower left quarter and raises a vertical column of dark strokes above it: painting on canvas where almost everything is quiet so that one event can be loud. […]

Music 1 – a blue that reflects itself Wall art rehearses the upper half of a panoramic canvas in the lower across a horizontal seam through deep cobalt and ultramarine — abstract painting whose beat really is the nearest thing here to music. Technique and texture The colour is laid […]

paintings – Golden Depth – a gold run between turquoise and ice Wall art trickles a thin gold run down the seam between a saturated turquoise block on the left and a wide ice-blue plane on the right: decorative painting making a whole composition out of three elements and nothing […]

Galaxy – gold dust in a green depth Wall art seeds a drift of gold-ochre loads across a deep green and blue-green square — decorative painting that falls apart into separate strokes at close range and reassembles into one depth from across the room. Technique and texture The gold planes […]

Sunset 2 – a city at dusk, warmed by its windows The cool sister of the fiery Sunset: a misty city in teal and blue-greyish tones, above which floats a pale sage-green haze. Down the centre descends a soft, pale shaft of light – there is no burning sun-point here; […]

City Above Water – towers and their double Wall art echoes a city skyline in the still water below it, towers above and their reflection beneath: decorative painting whose subject is repetition with a difference. Technique and texture The whole surface is laid with a blade in short horizontal strokes […]

paintings – Faces 5 – overlapping looks in a wide band Wall art plaits several long faces into one wide horizontal band so the edge of each continues into the next: painting on canvas in which no head is separable from the one beside it. Technique and texture The colour […]

Blue Soothes – a misty city in cool planes A mosaic of small vertical knife facets in cool tones: teal, turquoise, pale blue, white-cream and grey-olive. The facets gather into vertical towers – like the outlines of a city in rain or dusk – and between them a white mist […]

The Blue – molten gold and cobalt in a wet night A night field of streams: in the upper left quarter an amber-gold glow burns and creeps downward, while the right half is flooded by a cobalt-blue cascade, brightest at the upper right of centre. Between and beneath them lies […]

paintings – Coast 2 – an avenue at dusk Wall art files a row of dark trees across an exceptionally wide and low format and stands them above a level sheet of water: painting on canvas cut to the proportion of the view rather than of the wall. Technique and […]

paintings – Bulldog – a dog with a bow tie and a cigar Wall art seats a French bulldog in the middle of an entirely empty white field with no background and no shadow — modern painting deriving its humour from the seriousness with which the animal is built. Technique […]

paintings – Rainy Stroll 4 – lights spilled across wet stone Wall art paves the lower half of the canvas with wet ground and lets the lights stretch down it into long vertical reflections — abstract painting at arm’s length, a street only once you step back. Technique and texture […]