Periphlegathon: re-dated in February 2019
122cm x 122cm Dufaylite, acrylic
Sold to New York collector
The arrival of the 'Warmth Bodies.'
300 x 210mm Acrylic and oil on canvas
February 2018
£290
The departure of the 'Warmth Bodies.'
Acrylic and oil on canvas
March 2018
£290
The idea of the holy... 198cm x 167cm Acrylic, pastel and gold acrylic on canvas, Summer 2017
The idea of the holy... 198cm x 167cm Acrylic, pastel, gold acrylic on canvas, Summer 2017
How many licks does it take to.... 198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas, Summer 2017
Not wanting to say anything about Piet
198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2017
Incoming...
198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas. Autumn 2016
Spent Time
198cm x 167cm. Acrylic and oil on canvas. March 2016
'Wisemares...'
198cm x 167cm. Acrylic and oil on canvas. March 2016
'As far as longing can reach...'
198cm X 167cm. Acrylic on canvas, December 2015
'It' (over Tarum Titi Tum Tum etc)
48" x 48" Acrylic on mdf board, July 2015
Apeiron 1
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, March 2015
Apeiron 2
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, March 2015
Lethe 1 (SOLD)
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Lethe 2 (SOLD)
300 x 255mm Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Lethe 3 (SOLD)
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Lethe 4 (SOLD)
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Untitled
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, January 2015
Untitled
300 X 255mm. Acrylic on canvas, January 2015
Monday 1st January 2018
300 X 210mm. Acrylic on canvas, Autumn 2014
Updated in February 2018
Pending...
300 X 210mm. Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Untitled
300 X 210mm. Acrylic on canvas, Autumn 2014
Untitled
300 X 210mm. Acrylic on canvas, Autumn 2014
Pending...
300 X 210mm. Acrylic on canvas, Spring 2015
Apeiron 1 (large)
198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas, July 2015
Apeiron 2
198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas, July 2015
Apeiron 3
198cm x 167cm Acrylic on canvas, July 2015
Two dead men (dead artists) got up.
Each 42" X 42" acrylic, oil and pastel on board, February 2014
"We're not just in a race with living artists but a lot of dead ones are still in the running as well." - Tom Phillips, The Last Art Film 2012
Also available as full size fine art prints on Hahnemühle Rag Paper in a signed limited edition of 10.
Only red herrings 1
48" X 48" formica and 3D printed object, spring 2013
On twoness (many) from Parmenides:
"If what is were many then each of the many would necessarily be separated by what is not. But what is not can never be, therefore what is cannot possibly be many."
Only red herrings 2
48" X 48" formica and 3D printed object, spring 2013
Neither can be the original. They are poised at the beginning of my effort not to disappear, twice without reason. The foundations in ignorance that sound a low doh, with the inherent power to ascend the octave to the same thing become wisdom. The same longing for "the station which is no station."
My paintings are not to be viewed separately but in pairs, or trios... In this show there are 5 in a relationship - a family - coherent in that a polyphony of discreet parts cancels out to a conceptual silence.
Clutching at straws - sputnik fly-by
48" X 48" acrylic on board, autumn 2012
Farewell to 'self'
48" X 48" oil on board, autumn 2012
From Jacques Louis David's Death of Socrates. A little before accepting the hemlock Socrates says, '...those who are conversant with philosophy in a proper manner, seem to have concealed from others that the whole of their study is nothing else than how to die and be dead.'
(From the Thomas Taylor translation of Plato's Phaedo)
"The mules, I think, will not be here this hour..."
(from Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Mount Etna)
48" X 48" mixed media on dufaylite ultraboard, spring 2014
In search of Higg's Boson - Green Lovat
76cm X 97cm Fine Art Monoprint on Hahnemühle Rag Paper
In search of Higg's Boson is a series engendering all possible dates: to the death of our Sun. They act as an ubiquitous clock that serves to remind us of both our mortality and our immortality.
The form itself cannot be made in three dimensional space but suggests the possibility of doing so. It hovers in the mirror between the formless and the realizable. Contemplation lies in the polishing of this mirror.
In search of Higg's Boson - Red
76cm X 97cm Fine Art Monoprint on Hahnemühle Rag Paper
In search of Higg's Boson - Blue Red
76cm X 97cm Fine Art Monoprint on Hahnemühle Rag Paper
In search of Higg's Boson - Thursday 16th July 2015
In search of Higg's Boson - Friday 17th July 2015
76cm X 97cm mixed media on dufaylite
On reaching a date the owner may wish to overpaint a new future date and this will not compromise the authenticity of this work.
In search of Higg's Boson 2009
76cm X 97cm Mixed Media on MDF
Paintings 2019
Periphlegathon
Paintings 2014 - 2018
Small paintings
Apeiron 1 & 2 (Apeiron - Anaximander's 'Indefinite') 300 x 255mm
Lethe 1 - 4 (Lethe - The River of Forgetfulness) 300 x 255mm
'It' (over Tarum Titi Tum Tum) 48" x 48" Acrylic on plywood, July 2015
Future date paintings: 2056, 2056, 2018 etc
Larger paintings 198cm x 167cm
Spent time... March 2016
'Wisemares...' February 2016 (Title from Parmenides poem Peri Physeos)
'As far as longing can reach...' December 2015 (Title from Parmenides Poem)
Large Apeiron 1 - 3 2015 (overpainted)
Large Lethe 1 - 4 2015 (overpainted)
Two Dead Men (a pair) 2014
Two Dead Men (a pair) 42" x 42", Acrylic and oil on board, February 2014
Red Herrings 2013
Series of 5 MDF panels 48" x 48" Mixed media, oil and acrylic
"The Mules I hear..." 48" x 48" mixed media on Dufaylite
Higg's Bosons 2012 /13
76cm x 97cm, Monoprint
76cm x 97cm, pair on Dufaylite board
76cm x 97cm, pair of paintings, mixed media on board,