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Archive production
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Paintings, drawings and prints from conception to completion.
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Diagonal light from hidden source (middle left) established, warming the face of the main building, doorway work, purple shadows, blurred high and low lights, scattered bright colour in specific areas. Very close to completion. |
Berrystead and frame - Church oak light Commission completed and approved |
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Intensified blues and subtle contrasts, treeline work, painterly details, expressive brushwork on main building, overall tonality heightened, enlivening sky. |
Light established from hidden source on main building, overstating colour and contrast prior to glazing back, making connections with doorway and figures, painterly details, layers. |
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| Van dyke lay in on linen - 50cm X 42cm | Slow build up warm and cold details, thin colour layers, 'processional element' in, working well... |
Working title - Berrystead house
(initial compositional rendering)
A painting commission - Snow landscape
processional composition
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'Battlefield beach' The fine mess - Two paintings of five in early progress - from the popular series
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New tonal Perspectrum portraits - Ian and Maxine Size 32cm X 28cm - Oil on fine linen Early stage + Secondary stages to completion and finished portraits hanging in a domestic setting. |
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New painting commission - Hercules and Pearl Size 25cm X 45cm - Oil on fine linen Early stages - Drawing and 'hot' underpainting Secondary stages to completion. |
From building stretchers to the wall - Little couple on the rise
- A 'mirrored' figurative commission.
Including 'pocket version' to isolate figure dimensions - (*Commission
completed) - 40cm X 30cm X 2
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In progress - Beach Malevich - Fine mess V + Showbiz (in the night) - Fine mess VI
New medium size paintings -
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Oil on linen with small 'Pocket painting'
version
See - more completed work from this series
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Long light - Railway Cafe Dungeness
Oil on linen - work in progress - 40cm X 26cm - New beach commissions
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'Stacks/troubadour' - A new series lino cut prints (Fish boxes) for the winter show - Simplified structures
Encountered by chance, ingenious designs, practical, hand made, beautiful.
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New commission painting in progress - Working title - 'Dungeness duende' - A Fine mess IV - Oil, Beeswax, Damar on Linen
New beach dynamic - Lure of timber (diptych)
In progress - oil on linen
'Pocket paintings' Little people |
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'Stacks' diptych - A new series of paintings for the winter show - Simplified structures - Encountered by chance, ingenious designs, practical, hand made, beautiful.
New beach dynamic - (a new series)
In progress - oil on linen
'Pocket paintings' Little people on the rise
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New painting commission - latest addition to the portrait - landscape "In the night painting" series
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Two new paintings now completed and available Ace gable view and Blokes in the evening. Contact us for more information |
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Home at Last - 'In the night'
Dungeness dwellings (early drawings)
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Drawing for a new painting commission.
Home at Last - Diptych painting
New painting commission - latest addition to the portrait - landscape painting series
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Two views of work in progress over two consecutive days. See - Commissioned work
Home at Last - Diptych drawing
Composition rendering for a new painting commission - continuation of the popular portrait-landscape seriesBeach Combi Bus - New Editions
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| 'Pepsi' version - Type II | Stealth version - Type II |
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| Duck egg version - Type II | Taupe version - Type II |
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| Yellow ochre version - Type II | Commission an Edition..... |
Commissioned Editions
Olive 'Bright day' Combi - Version IV
Orange 'Bright day' Combi - Version III
New Edition of six prints completed and now available - See - 'Bright day Bus'
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Third proof - Ghostly evening light - A little more trimming and texture to be added.
Beach Bus - Cheerful progression - second state
Continuation of Rest and recreation series - Linocut multiblock print 6 blocks in progress...
Ist outline block - To be trimmed back
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Beach Battler - Seed
M+D on the point
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An emotion expressed in an intensely sustained brief moment.
Jimmy's carriage - Diptych (completed)
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New diptych in progress - Jimmy's carriage drawing, gentle Van Dyke lay in. earths and bright underpainting.
On the main drag - In the night
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New series of long landscapes 40 cm x 18 cm
'In the night' I aim to marry a timeless mood as befits the beach and a direct 'tough' painterly approach.
Lucky dog of destiny
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Last two of four commissioned pocket paintings - 'lucky' birthday paintings - Joyful narrative work now completed
Orange Combi
Orange combi wagon small Pocket painting 8cm X 12cm - (completed)
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Underpainted combi to be 'that' great orange shade - a commissioned pocket painting
Lucky dog of destiny
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Three of four commissioned pocket paintings - 'lucky' birthday paintings - Joyful narrative work in progress
Phoenix - Carriage (completed)
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Edwardian train carriage revealed on the West-side beach "that which rises from the ashes of what was destroyed" - Early days on this diptych, adding structure in order to start a process of simplification. I'm after a certain mood... not unlike 1950's seaside tourist paintings/posters.
The Den/Base on Dungeness beach (now completed)
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'The Base' an extensive wooden play den made by children on the beach at Dungeness.
I intend these smaller paintings be made in a loose painterly and playful manner - Using a bright and innocent palette, to match the ethos of the structure.
Step by step information and guidance on a working painter's techniques.
Available Paintings
Structure Simplified structures - Encountered, ingenious, functional, hand made, beautiful....
Contender for Best Tractor on the
beach An attractive working companion to The Mighty
Wearn
A beautiful hard working vehicle captured in the early morning light.
Mighty Wearn
Medium sized painting - Oil/beeswax on linen
