paintings

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 – Stylized City – a red square on grey quiet Wall art lodges rectangles of different sizes in a low band across the middle of the canvas and sets a large red square among them — modern painting whose whole event happens along one horizontal. Technique and texture The […]

paintings – Coast – a rainbow wood over still water Wall art twins a many-coloured wood in the calm water beneath it so that the upper and lower halves of the canvas carry the same colour sequence: decorative painting that gets its structure from a fold rather than from a […]

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 […]

Japanese Cherry Blossom 5 – white flowers before a burning sky Wall art bows a dark trunk out of the lower left corner and opens it in a wide arc across the full width of the canvas — decorative painting where the tree is old and everything it carries is […]

Watercolor – wet stains behind black axes Wall art pools yellow, blue-green, violet, orange and red into wet stains that run into one another with no outline at all, and the thin black lines laid across them afterwards are what make it: modern painting rather than a happy accident. Technique […]

Tree and Lava – a blue crown in a gold wind Wall art unfurls a wide blue crown across a gold-orange sky and stands it on a dark brown hill in the lower third of the canvas — modern painting in which the two halves of the colour wheel are […]

Faces in the Mirror V – a gold field and chestnut hair Painting on canvas rests the face against a wide gold field that occupies the left third and is worked in soft circular strokes: abstract painting on one side of the canvas and a portrait on the other. Technique […]

Faces in the Mirror II – a narrow tower and a line of smoke Painting on canvas elongates a single face into a narrow upright tower running from the top edge of the canvas to the bottom — modern painting in which the proportions are the joke and the face […]

Flower of Passion – red branches out of a black core Wall art branches a red form upward out of an almost black core at the lower edge, thinning toward the top into separate points while the ground behind it moves from brown into a glowing gold-yellow — modern painting […]

Universe II – rings around a bright centre Wall art coils concentric rings around a white-silver core lying left of centre: painting on canvas made with one continuous circular gesture repeated in ever-wider orbits until it runs out of canvas. Technique and texture Because the blade never lifted, the furrows […]

Blossom I – rectangular leaves in silver and honey Wall art radiates flat rectangular blocks outward from a dark core in silver-blue and gold-beige — decorative painting rather than pattern, because no block repeats the size of another. Technique and texture A stiff blade set each block down in one […]

Nude IV – a close crop in gold Wall art shears the figure at the shoulders and again lower down, leaving a square crop that holds only the middle of the body in a red garment — modern painting that withholds more than it shows and gets its tension from […]

Intersection – a teal line across red Wall art severs a single-colour red field with one narrow teal line running horizontally just above the middle, and gathers white ridges on it in three places: decorative painting that reads as a horizon even though no object is painted anywhere on it. […]

Face under Hair – eyes we never see Wall art hides the upper half of a face beneath a thick fall of coloured hair, leaving the nose, the mouth and the chin painted in a cool blue-violet — modern painting in which the hair is handled as pure colour, drawn […]

Marilyn Monroe – red lips on black Wall art sculpts a white-silver head out of a wholly black ground, so the face reads as a relief laid onto darkness rather than as a picture painted into it: modern painting whose only saturated colours are the red of the lips and […]