'Balance II'   19" x 13"

Mixed Media - 2023

Laser cut filled with metallic Gold acrylic, image is in a temporary A2 frame.

' Rebel Without a Cause ' - 23.5" x 9.5" -  Framed : 26" x 12"

Mixed Media 

2022

Based on the iconic image of James Dean, this was three  laser cuts on card, hand painted with acrylic and mounted on black card with a raised air gap to give a sense of dimension.

'Slack Rope l'  - 10" x 8" -  Framed : 14.5" x 12.5"

Mixed Media  -  2022

 Another laser project, this was cut out of 2mm Latvian Birch which was then painted with acrylics,  the gold figure was cut separately, again, from 2mm Latvian Birch. The image originates comes from a photo I took during the 1980s of a friend who one summer evening tied a slack rope between two trees in our garden and practised his slack rope walking. Forgive the annoying light reflection on the acrylic paint, the photo, once again, does not do the work justice.v

' Greta Garbo'  - 36"x24" - Unframed

Acrylic on 18mm Board   -  2022

The  iconic visual of Greta Garbo during her heyday, and one I really like.  The headscarf is iridescent, the tones change with the light as you move, an interesting effect.

'Digital Life' - 24" x 36" - Unframed

Mixed Media on 18mm Board  - 2021

This is based on a collection of my old phones which represent twenty years of my life in digital communications. To make it more intriguing I wired LED lights behind the phones so when you press the silver button they turn on to give a subtle illumination which works well in low light.  The credit cards represent what is our value which in reality is worthless pieces of plastic, technically, this piece has the residual value of the cards until they expire.  I come from a time where coins and notes represented value and a phone was tethered to a socket in the wall. Now I am standing on a threshold at the mercy of the digital world. It all stops working when we have no electricity which was never the case before, and that's not to mention the devastation a real solar storm could do to our electronics.

'Radio Ga Ga' - 36" x 24" - Framed

Acrylic on Textured Board  -  2022

An experiment with iridescent paint, I textured the board some time back and had it primed ready for something. I quickly realized that creating straight lines or any line for that matter, on a textured surface was not an easy path to follow, but I persevered. I did not know where I was going with this visual but now I can see a connection in it to my own interest and love for Art Nouveau.

'View from Craiganee' - 24" x 36" - Unframed

Acrylic on 18mm Board  - 2021

The view from the roof dorma of my home, in winter the sky sometimes turns pink and Knocklayd mountain, a blue grey, the conifers find shadow and shade in the morning and silhuoette in the evening as the last rays of sunlight illuminate the field in front before vanishing over the high ground behind. The landscape here was carved by melt water from an ice sheet some 10,000 years again and the blue rim around the painting represents that.

'Oscar Wilde' - 24" x 36" - Unframed

Mixed Media on 18mm Board  -  2022

I  started to work with a laser cutting text and shapes and thought this would be an interesting subject to try it out on. The use of iridescent copper around the body and upper text  works well, the photo though does not do it justice. The buttons are two Victorian coins, a young Queen Victoria from the year Wilde was born and an old Queen Victoria from the year he died in Paris. There is some squashing of the horizontal plane in this  photo