Climbers and Tumblers (just sold!)

Two new paintings for April

(untitled)

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Spring Clowns

oil on canvas

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Recent work,March - April (Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You; Entanglement)

Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You

Entanglement

Latest work, "Blush For Naught"

"Blush For Naught"
small Spring abstract
12 x 10 "
oil on canvas
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"Wenn ich trinke muss ich singen"

oil on wood, 

8 x 8 inches

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Blizzard's Home

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First of a new winter series

New painting, "Ambergris"

11 x 14 oil on canvas board.


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Details from work in progress:

This first is a more "alchemy-influenced" painting,

-which feels as though it marks the coming of the dark half of the year,
a possible time for occultation, and finding strength deep inside oneself.
In the fog and murk one might at least stumble upon a new direction.
"Honour thine error as a hidden intention" as the Oblique Strategies card set
has it.

I'm currently exploring Taoist alchemy http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan.html

and magical calligraphy;
James Elkins has written engagingly on the kinship between painting and alchemy in "What Painting Is".

New painting, "Caw and Clatter"

This is part of a series using gestural large brushstrokes in blackboard paint, with oil colour overlaid with painting knives.  It's partly inspired by the sounds made by corvidae and other birds in and around the trees in autumn.   
The painting is available via the Tarpey Gallery.

Work in progress: "Something Lies beyond the Scene" - larger version

: early stages.

Above: The original small painting (sold). Composite working image from two scans, hence the blurry vertical line near the middle.

"At dusk, you were at the boundary"...

New oil on canvas (still in progress) 

Breton Ballad, Machiavellian

Breton Ballad

oil on canvas, 20 x 16

Machiavellian

oil on canvas, 20 x 16

Summer Storm

Summer Storm

oil on canvas,  16 x 12 inches.

(Sold)

Parade, new oil on canvas

Parade
oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches

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...also, a mere caprice, Mid May, Showery Dusk

16 x 12, oil on canvas

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Flowers of the Wind

Flowers of the Wind
 oil on canvas panel, 15 x 11 inches approx.


We've had some breezy days over here lately 
and this made me aware of the strength of flowers as well as their delicacy, 
how they ride along in this boisterous game.


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Laughing Song

oil on canvas board, 16 x 13 "




"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;

When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!'

When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!' "

-William Blake, 'Laughing Song', from 'Songs of Innocence'

A number of interesting musical settings to Blake poems, by Jeff Gillett, are here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JandEGillett#p/u/4/M9pvcWA8fYA
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King of the Wood (Beer and Butterflies)

10 by 8 inches, oil on canvas board. 20th April 2011

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The garden is all a-flutter with orange-tipped  and yellow butterflies lately!

The Crimes of Bridget Quince

oil on canvas paper, 16  x 12 "

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Tarry Night

18 x 14, oil on canvas board






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