Sale of paintings

Above the Water – violet trees in reflection Wall art casts violet and turquoise trees into a bright sheet of water taking the lower third of the canvas — modern painting of this kind turns on which half is lit — here it is the wrong one. Technique and texture […]

Abstraction 9 – where hot meets cold One canvas, two worlds: the left half burns in layers of red, orange and scarlet, the right cools into deep navy blue. Left of centre a white-yellow explosion of horizontal fragments erupts – the brightest event of the painting – and beneath it […]

paintings – Squares 2 – a mesh of spirals in earth tones Wall art grids the canvas into a dense field of rounded squares and writes a single spiral into each one: decorative painting that sets out to be a pattern and then refuses to complete itself as one. Technique […]

paintings – Trace – a red arc across cracked grey Wall art flings red paint in a wide arc rising from the lower left toward the upper right of a black-and-white ground — abstract painting in which the picture is a record of a movement rather than a drawing of […]

paintings – Movement – colour blocks in a crossed weave Wall art interlocks short colour blocks so that vertical and horizontal passes cross like cloth — decorative painting whose subject is the weave itself and nothing behind it. Technique and texture Each block is a single pass of a wide […]

View – a face looking straight back Painting on canvas squares a face to the viewer and builds it from dark and light planes with a red scarf around head and neck — decorative painting only in the loosest sense, because this one looks back at the room. Technique and […]

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 […]

Transition II – three red crowns before the light Wall art veils three slim trees with deep red crowns in front of a large bright opening at the centre of the canvas, where brown, grey and ochre gather into a ring — abstract painting wearing a wood as a disguise. […]

Sea and Silver Coast – three bands and no horizon Wall art ribs three horizontal bands one beneath another, white-grey above, silver sand through the middle and deep blue below: decorative painting unusual in refusing the horizon its subject seems to promise. Technique and texture A blade laid the colour […]

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 […]

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. […]

Music – a band of strokes and its echo Wall art doubles a narrow band of vertical strokes across the middle of an almost empty canvas, repeating it beneath a horizontal line as a reflection: painting on canvas in which blue, green, red and black are set down side by […]

In Space X – overlapping circles and one gold ring Wall art piles overlapping circles across the whole surface in red, ochre, beige and grey, cutting two dark red ones into the top edge and setting two pale yellow dotted ones below them: painting on canvas whose single closed circle […]

Flowers IV – three blue heads among bamboo stems Wall art sows three blue flowers into a band of upright bamboo-like stems, giving each of them six narrow petals, a white-lit middle and a small dark eye: painting on canvas where blue is the only cool colour and is used […]

Flowers I – two magenta heads over a violet band Wall art faces two large pink-magenta flower heads against a scarlet field, each head built from five heart-shaped petals with a gilded sheen and a tightly gathered spherical centre: painting on canvas, its petals modelled rather than brushed. Technique and […]

In Space VI – a copper mechanism in a cold field Painting on canvas plants a copper-gold mass that looks machined into a cool green-grey field, and builds it from rows of raised hemispheres, combed fans and a dark ring set left of centre — modern painting whose thickest paint […]

Attention II – three lilies against a diagonal ground Wall art carries three open lilies and two closed buds right across the width of the canvas, their creamy white petals each crossed by a red-pink stripe running outward from the centre: painting on canvas in which precise botanical drawing sits […]