been lost for a while, but back again

Hello, Again


initial sketch of swimming pool


Swimming Pool


Boy Band Member


Factory 1# (unfinished)

Veiw on Cornmarket

New thoughts

Impressions of A Wedding (Acrylic on Canvas)

Man's Face 1# (Ink on Paper)
Drumming Noise by Florence and the Machein (Acrylic on Canvas)
Paper Planes Draft 1# (Ink/Black Paint on Paper)

Walking up St Aldates at noon I noticed ...

Serengeti

Business men leap the road

Like gazelles on acid

Graceful, lubricated on their lunch break

Catching buses like bubbles in jelly, captured for them and waiting for them

To scoot them and slide them away from their grey sticks of peopled offices.

They meet and sniff each other and lollop into cafes where they have

Grass and espressos, and exchange

Bowler Hats (as pocket watches are now out of fashion).

War Paint

Girl on the bus

With red war paint streaking down her face

Red war paint with finger marks imprinted still

Screaming from the cavern of her knock off England hoody

Giving it THE BIG I AM

On the way to something or other, unaware – oblivious –

To the years of pain that

These marks, these streaks, these trails

Trace what has fallen on the pitches.

more from that chair in that pub ,,,

Second in the pub series 'Getting up to Order'; the finished series will be on display and for sale soon, tbc



And a draft for you ... paint sketch for 'Woman standing in the Wind', I will keep you updated on what it turns into...

Two questions:

1) Do you get more as an artist out of visiting a gallery if you go with another artist?

2) Is it possible to create a set first and then write a play out of this artistic process rather than, as convention dictates, the other way round?

New stuff and things ,,,

Draft for 'Standing in front of a fan' (will be acrylic on canvas)


'Pint by the Window' (acrylic on cavas, first in a series of pub scenes)




Depiction of 'Oh Yeah' by Ash (acrylic on canvas)




Depiction on the Yeah Yeah Yeah song by The Flaming Lips (Acrylic on canvas)

More to come soon ... portraits and music paintings ....

words/images; images/words

New Park, Old Faces Must Go

They cried out the day she was taken,

Despite the fact only the crows would sit by her and on her.

She was a hundred and one years old, wrapped in snakes, a proper Medusa,

Tendrils hung from her like grotesque, extra limbs, all grit and grease,

Warped and eaten by weather.

She pinned for better, summer days –

Lax by then in her hatred of the world, stony as maybe;

She was husked out like a beaten wasp or an airless sky;

She would sit and face the blast

Cradling herself against anything further,

And pitying the carver who killed herself over her.

Shop

Places in front of me

I enter a door

And drop my coat and remove my shoes

Skulls line the walls

And I search for the toys I want the most

I spot the boat at the bottom of the shelves of other things

And I have a moment just holding it,

Cradling it in the folds of my dress, my waist exposed,

I have no feeling in me other than this.

I go to the fish tank and push the ship out

And I laugh

As the little person in it smiles up at me.

I have been working on this week, and and am working on today, poetry and drawings. I draw and then I write, this really seems to work, the process makes the drawings and the poems fuller. I don't really plan what I am going to draw, I just draw and then the idea of what to write comes, and that in turn develops the images.

Something about the combination of art forms seems to make art a fuller experience; this is how I would like to exhibit and collaborate with other artists. Have just found out that I am going to be part of a working exhibiting space along with other artists in the Temple Cowley area of Oxford in the next couple of weeks ... my plan is to get collect words and poetry fragments from vistors, inviting them to draw them on the wall follwing on from each other, and then I'll respond and add to them visually until there is an end piece connecting audience and artist. I don't know what we'll end up with, but it will be a purely creative experiment in development and creative empowerment. Details to follow...