Recent paintings

Paintings, 2023

The Disjunction
60 cms x 50 cms
On the Beach
Twixt Curtain and Clock

2021 & 2022 paintings

The Magician
The Consistency of Pleasure
And so They Spun
A Little Chaos
Portrait of Anna for her 30th
The Sisters
Tiger in the Night
The Life Class
Dance of Life - Life Class
The Art Class
Model-Posing
You Can Hear a Pin Drop
Portrait Of Lleuco
Portrait of Osion
14 hornets
Through a Glass Darkly
Tiger Lily
Jenny's Hat
Dreaming of Dogs

Hide and Seek

The Hide and Seek Paintings took shape from a series of drawings I did about Children's Games and in particular the enduring thrill of playing Hide and Seek.
I played it as a child in large houses in the dark, I played it with my child and I see it is still being played with the same gleeful abandon.

Hide and Seek at Dusk
Hide and Seek Counting to 100
Hide and Seek a Quick Peek
Hide and Seek by Moonlight
Hide and Seek in the Morning
Hide and Seek at Night
Hide and Seek

The mechanics of the game include the excitement of hiding in the dark and the dread of being found or worse, forgotten.
The sneaking back to base, the muffled sound and the strangeness of objects in a half light and in the dark make the negotiation of space perilous.
My paintings, while resting in reality, engage a twist of metaphor and a heightened colour for suggestibility. In fact I attempt to make the painting as thrilling as the remembered experience.
I continue to try and capture the felt sensations involved.

Gainsborough's Chandelier
Hide and Seek at Dusk
Dancing at Dusk (exhibited at Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff)
Russian Chandelier
0.60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
That Morning Curtain
0.60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
L'Heure Bleue
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
The Moon Outside
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
The Morning Room
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
Flowers lit by the Blood Moon
0.91 m (h) x 0.91 m (w)
Rain Outside
0. 60 m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
The Moon Vase
0.62 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
Portrait of a Lady
0.5 m (h) x 0.5 m (w)
Blodeuwydd
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
Dorman Flowers
0.50 m (h) x 0.50 m (w)
The Bumblebee Plate
0.60 m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
In an Amber Room
1.01 m (h) x .0.30 m (w)
Redhead
0.40 m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
The Basil Flowers
0.91 m (h) x 0.91 m (w)
Head in Leaf
0.45 m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
Forest Head
0.45. m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
Carnations
0.91 m (h) x 0.91 m (w)
Roses
0.91 m (h) x 0.91 m (w)
Posy
0.25 m (h) x 0.25 m (w)
Billet Doux
0.25 m (h) x 0.25 m (w)
The Conundrum
1.01 m (h) x .0.30 m (w)
Thinking Tulip
1.21 m (h) x .0.30 m (w)
Coriolanus
0.91 m (h) x 0.45.7 m (w)
Lady and Gladioli
1.0 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
The Birds Paper
0.26 m (h) x 0.26 m (w)
The Fortune Teller
0.91 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
The Fan
0.91 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Crown of Flowers
0.30 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
The Ariadne Flowers
0.91 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Nicholas's Dream
1.21 m (h) x 1.21 m (w)
Bouquet
0.91 m (h) x 0.91 m (w)
The White Roses
0.60 m (h) x 0.30 m (w)
The Siblings
0.91 m (h) x 1.21 m (w)
In the Halls of Superstition
0.60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Eau de Vie
0.60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Cameo Role
0.65 m (h) x 0.84 m (w)
Little Buddha
0.60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Pandora's Box
0.91 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Desert Rose
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
Trinity Flowers
1.20 m (h) x 1.20 m (w)
Girls looking in a Jeweller's Window
0.91 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Bathing by Moonlight
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
Giving Form to Passion
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
Maidens Dreaming
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
Night Games
0.79 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
The Laughing Queen
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
Terry Stephenson
0.30 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
The Music of the Night
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
Harriet at Redgate
2.13 m (h) x 1.82 m (w)
The Disagreement
0.62 m (h) x 0.62 m (w)
The Art Historian
1.52 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)
A Row on the Lake
1.21 m (h) x 0.79 m (w)
In the Garden
0.79 m (h) x 0.45 m (w)
The Quality of Sleep
1.21 m (h) x 1.21 m (w)
Child Icon
0.91 m (h) x 0.27 m (w)
Erasmus Marble Monster
1.82 m (h) x 1.52 m (w)

Nursery Triptychs – 1, 2 & 3

Baby Mural
0..60 m (h) x 0.60 m (w)
Left panel Hakon's Tryptych: 'The Call of the Midnight Wild'
0..60 m (h) x 0.35 m (w)
Middle panel Hakon's Triptych: 'Seafaring in the Blood'
0..60 m (h) x 0.35 m (w)
Right panel Hakon's Tryptych: 'Ibsen Schoolgirl'
0..60 m (h) x 0.35 m (w)
Left panel 'Cosmo'
0.27 m (h) x 0.19 m (w)
Middle panel 'Cosmo'
0.27 m (h) x 0.19 m (w)
Right panel 'Cosmo'
0.27 m (h) x 0.19 m (w)
Left panel Ingrid's Tryptych 'Flower Queens'
0.4 m (h) x 0.28 m (w)
Middle panel Ingrid's Tryptych 'Flower Queens'
0.4 m (h) x 0.28 m (w)
Right panel Ingrid's Tryptych 'Flower Queens'
0.4 m (h) x 0.28 m (w)