She sang a lot of songs including ‘Me and My Chauffeur’. This isn’t quite finished- work in progress.
Fiddle Player – Mississippi Delta Blues II
A boy playing the fiddle on the porch. It’s not finished yet…
Green Chair
This iPad picture began as a man on a porch playing guitar in a hat. As I drew, it transformed and morphed and ended as a Parisian lady in a sitting room, under the same hat. The chair has a loose cover made of linen. Like in the film ‘The Yellow Rolls-Royce”, the hat remained the same as the owners changed. It’s like a small domestic story of metamorphosis.
Mississippi Delta Blues
i saw the film Detroit a couple of nights ago. It made a big impact, got me thinking. This is not yet finished but is somehow related and I’m excited about it.
Gone thinking…
I’m away for a period of time while I think…
I will be back…
London in the Rain
This is an iPad drawing done on a rainy summer’s day in London…
There are always elements in drawings that come up through the subconscious. I tell myself I must stand by them even though they might puzzle me. Sometimes it takes weeks or months to understand what I’ve drawn.
Drawing again
I’ve been gone on Instagram for a while, but here I am back again with a drawing. Ballpoint on paper.
Santa Monica 1970
This is work in progress -from a group of boys by the beach in California, way back. iPad drawing. I drew this on 31st January – in the ancient Celtic Calandar that’s Imbolc – when Brigid the goddess of fire is recovering from giving birth to a young boy God. That’s a very old way of saying it’s the beginning of Spring.
Instagram Stranger’s Portrait
This is a portrait I drew on iPad – from a Selfie by a stranger on Instagram. It turned out to be Jack Trewin, a painter, and the son of Simon & Helen Trewin.
Assembled figures
I’m drawing in sharpy, water-crayon and ballpoint on large sheets of paper- lots of people in relation to eachother.
Ghost Lost in Thought
Ipad drawing. Halloween weekend.
First Do No Harm – Hydrangea
I painted this on my computer and had it digitally printed with additional glazes. There are cameo portraits and a seal inserted too.
It’s the story of how the Hydrangea plant came to Britain, and its medicinal properties first discovered by the Cherokee. Near the bottom is the Hippocratic seal- which accompanies the Hippocratic oath of around 500 BCE, still in use today: “First do no harm…”
There’s information about Peter Collinson of Pekham who imported rare plants in the C18th HERE
Portrait of a Man
This is part of a new painting, and it’s work in progress- as you can see by the splodgy bits
portrait | oil on board
Yello Cat
It’s my little cat, Lemon, or Citron (mon p’tit chat). A small yellow cat with a big personality. This is a recent computer painting from a study I did in 2011. A homage to George Stubbs’ painting, Whistlejacket, of 1762.
Self-Portrait, on the sofa
I painted this with my fingers on iPad. Strange how tactile this techno-painting can be! I’m happy that the window box plants are higher than my head. Seems important, somehow.
