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The years are passing more quickly now, and as they do my interest in life and how it is lived facinates me more and more. That is why I make art.

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Spring and Autumn Acrylic on linen bonded to wood panel Diptych, £1860.00

Embrace, Acrylic on Canvas £640.00

Layers: Red Green and Blue. This series of paintings were created whilst exploring the architecture of thought and how ideas and notions are constructed. The layering and overlapping of thoughts brought together in ideas and notions is tangled process. However, in disparate thoughts we recognise similarity. The process for making these images is similar. Using six identical templates to apply six layers of thin oil paint to each of the images in the different colours I rotated the templates, so they are placed at different angles in each image so there is nowhere the images are the same and yet despite different colours the similarity is recognisable.
Layers: Blue, Red and Green, (triptych). £690.00

This work was created in 2007 and was a response to my interest in language at that time, something that interest me still. As well as being colours in language “White” can allude to purity, an inspirational light, a raised nature of and so on the white section the rectangle in the centre is raised by 3mm above the surface. “Grey” allude to uncertainty, vagueness, neither here nor there, and so the rectangle on the grey panel is painted and is flush with the surface. “Black” in language alludes to dark deeds, evil, frightened and feeling of despair, the rectangle in this section is below the surface, in fact it is separate from the surface by 3mm and this followed a discussion with a nurse about depression and I remember her saying if you are at the bottom of the ladder it is “easier” to help someone, but once you have let go the bottom of the ladder it is very difficult to get back, hence the gap between the rectangle and the surface. I also discovered making this work the importance for me of colour, the rectangle on the white panel is the same white as the rest of the piece but the white with pale lilac through it seems brighter. The black panel has colour in it top right and this made the black and darkness in the work more power. This discovery has led to a powerful interest in colour and it is a central tenet of my practice
White, Grey and Black, (triptych). £1200.00
“Tidal Variations” Oil on canvas x 4 with four found objects. Overall Dimensions 430 x 200 x 38cm Created 2003. The shape of the waters edges in the four canvas’s is based on a graph of an approximate 28 day repeating period of tidal variations. The tide goes in and out twice a day, well slightly over that which is why tidal peaks and troughs are always slightly later each day but as well as occurring at slightly different times the high of each new tide is different because of the alignment of the sun, moon and earth, this repeats over a 28 day period with each 28 day period varying slightly each time. [Please excuse any simplifications and inaccuracies in this brief explanation; I am an artist not an oceanographer]. On the Lincolnshire coast I retrieved from the beach four objects which were washed ashore during this period, one on each panel, each is represented at the appropriate time it was located in the cycle with a small random area of colour, one in each panel. Thinking about determinism, objects in water move by wind, current and tide are all governed by scientific laws, like pool or snooker balls one hit their course is determined they cannot go off on random trajectories. No matter how complex the system if they were returned to their original departure points in the same circumstances they would arrive in the same place again. Now your brain is as complex as the oceans tidal system with little neurons passing messages through electrical impulses but electricity and atoms that make up the neurons are all governed by deterministic scientific laws and if that is the case how is it we appear to have free will, if we are made up of constituent parts governed by deterministic laws is everything that happens predestined? I happen to believe we are able to make choices and have free will but like other aspects of life I find it hard to put my finger on the source of this freewill.
Tidal Variations. (Quadriptych), with four mounted found objects. £3100.00
Red Sails In The Sunset £257.00
Autumn Leaves, Link to be added
Every Time We Say Goodbye, Link to be added.
Bailing at Revesby (Sold)
Two Hares In A Landscape (Sold)
Archimedean Spiral £460.00
Fate, The Three Morai. £460.00
Twelve Circles £680.00
Silent Voices, (Sold)
Siorraidh £2050.00

The Gecko And A Half Full Glass £650.00

Cathedrals £740.00

Sometimes When I’m Lonely £900.00

A Few Fleeting Thoughts £730.00