Mug Shots

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Title Page for an earlier version of "Chronologicallyours"

Originally from a large canvas (6ft x 9ft),

bemoaning the chronic closure of our public libraries.

This lot was painted at my old studio in Ladywood.

Swami & Friends

Individuals gleaned from Jakarta Museum and put into a composition with oil pastels in a beautiful hotel garden full of singing birds in Yogyakarta 1986.

There are Fairies at the bottom of my Garden

An eidetic fairy tale

What with confronting my female side and all, in a sense this is one of the most revolutionary things (for me) I have ever done!
I mean, boys don’t deal with fairies – it’s normally crime and football.

It’s a case of trying to get all the fairy faces balanced – looking like they had all been made at the same time – instantly created!

Some are fuzzy & they work, some are quite clean cut – almost unreal in some “hyper real” kind of way.

I have decided to confront my macho side with this composition.

this pair – they are feeling trees

Or – maybe, they are being trees.

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Mind, there is nothing wrong in being a tree, I’ve done it myself.

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I talk to the trees that's why they put me away.

Put on your sailing shoes


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Basic Months

Well, it's the right time of year to lay them out!

Ride like the wind

And the story about how this came to pass that hot October in Philadelphia.

Valley Forge National Historic Park 1979

There we were behind the statue getting quite stoned, when the tourist coach pulled up.
Twas twilight & they got out quickly to see the statue.
At which point, we exploded into uncontrollable mirth.The whole coachload simply turned round, got back on board and drove off.

Not the original drawing, but the one I made immediately on my return to Blighty.
I always felt that the black was too heavy handed.

All I had was black and white and I needed some colours, I came across this bunch made in Kerala in 1981 and thought that'l do.

Mid 2018 I decided I needed to make a composition of this, after all, it did have a story behind it.
I converted the drawing to Png and made the white bits "see through" then put it on my colour notes.





Before and after

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First question marks about the seated figure

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I thought I had solved everything, they I noticed that my new figure had a balloon stuck under his coat (I mean - screw anatomy!)

Then I noticed that the left hand side didn't cut it.

Then I thought "it needs some flowers"

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Yippee-iyo-yippee-iyay ghost riders in the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ-J6sSo5lw

Frankie Lane

This is part of a stint of work I've made using a quite basic Corel Draw and Paint package.
(from about 1999 I think)
You have to do everything by yourself!
But I know the package backwards and wouldn't want to upgrade it. Although I will to one day when simply doesn't work on any computer anymore.
I haven't specifically chosen to go digital. I'm simply not where my studio is at the moment and if I want to work in compositional mode, this is the most accessible discipline available.