The sea has long been a passion of mine, I enjoy sailing far off shore, whether as crew on the STS Malcolm Miller or cruising the Western Isles around Scotland & Ireland with friends.

I would like to capture for the viewer something of the enormity & brutal power one witnesses at sea. Most sailors will tell how it draws the spirit inwards where we perceive the consoling/unsettling truths of modern life where there is no normality. Leaving each voyager isolated with our fantasies & our sense of apartness. I hope you will conclude that questions of human nature & the nature of reality are inseparable in these artworks.

Art has to be very strong to embody such ideas in images & so I have chosen to use embedded wood chips in mixed acrylics that make the paintings something tougher, more resolutely realistic. In their sculptural quality & psychological anguish they are unpleasant to touch, cold, hard & uncompromising, just like the sea.

This is my private impressionist quest to trap light & the transient moment on the canvas. A 'Cervantesian' tilt at your responses, away from the cerebral, towards the emotional.		 view gallery
 
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current series: reclining nudes
series: waves | olympia | bathing | andromeda
historic series: 1970's collection
mediums: oil | acrylic

reclining nudes: too much salsa
olympia series: olympia | excite, arouse & excitare | satisfy, fulfill or exceed? | behold, enquire & observe | conjugal inamorato contemplation | high heels - gratify, pander, mores | exuberant, bouyant & exuberare | joie de vivre | cannote sated ecstasy, well perhaps | reflections of self by jolie laidie | slaked exigency exigentia or simply morn? | ponder felicitous light | credence, confidence & humour | bliss | jocund jocunda or seductive jezebel | disquiet, disdain or disingenuous? | life's a bitch | maturity, disillusion or enlightenment | ultimatum | silence
waves series: heat wave IV
bathing Series: after the tub
1970's collection: umbalan drummer | frederico fellini | sir francis chichester | clown

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