No.164 Rain on the Coast

This is painting No.164 entitled, "Rain on the Coast" on a 24x24" canvas painted today (July 29th 2010).Sold to Sheffield,England.

No.163 Overcast Street in Glasgow

This is painting No.163 entitled, "Overcast Street in Glasgow" on a 24x24" canvas painted today (July 28th 2010).In oils.Sold to Kidderminster,Worcestershire,England.

No.162 An afternoon in Penzance

This is painting No.162 entitled, "An Afternoon in Penzance" on an 24x24" canvas painted entirely today (July 27th 2010).Sold to Kidderminster,Worcestershire,England.

No.161 Clevedon Pier

This is painting No.161 entitled, "Fog on Clevedon Pier" on a 24x24" canvas painted today (July 26th 2010).Sold to Clevedon,England.

No.160 Chesterton Windmill

This is painting No.160 entitled, "Chesterton Windmill near Dark" on an 16x20" canvas.Sold to Deal,Kent England.

No.159 All Souls Church

This is painting No.159 entitled, "All Souls Church,London" painted today (July 24th 2010).Sold to Northamptonshire,England.

No.158 North Head Lighthouse

This is painting No.158 entitled, "Dusk at North Head Lighthouse" on a 16x20" canvas.Sold to Shropshire,England.

No.157 Hever Castle

This is painting No.157 entitled, "Mist at Hever Castle" painted last night (July 23rd 2010).Sold to Halifax,West Yorkshire,England.

No.156 A Cage with Golden Bars

This is painting No.156 entitled, "A Cage with Golden Bars" completed this month (July 2010).Sold to Croatia.

No.155 Vogue

This is painting No.155 entitled, "Vogue" which i completed today (July 20th 2010) on an 18x20" canvas.Sold.

No.154 Rapunzel with Alopecia

This is painting No.154 entitled, "Rapunzel with Alopecia" completed entirely today (July 19th 2010).Oil on canvas (18x20").Sold to Gloucestershire,England.

No.153 Oysters stealing a Pearl Necklace

This is painting No.153 entitled, "Oysters stealing a Pearl Necklace" which i completed last night (July 18th 2010).Oil as always on canvas.Sold to Newnham on Severn,Gloucestershire,England.

No.152 Ravens with Priest

This is painting No.152 entitled, "Ravens with Priest" which i completed last night (July 17th 2010) on an 18x20" canvas.Sold to Salford,Greater Manchester,England.

No.151 The Brothers

This is painting No.151 entitled, "The Brothers" painted several days ago on an 18x20" canvas.Sold to Somerset,England.

No.150 The Top Hat Killers

This is painting No.150 entitled, "The Top Hat Killers" which i painted entirely last night before watching the horror film, "Saw III".Sold to Michigan,USA.

No.149 Trouble on the Farm

This is painting No.149 entitled, "Trouble on the Farm" on an 18x20" canvas which i painted entirely the night before last (July 13th 2010).Sold to Michigan,USA.

No.148 The meeting of the Spirits

This is painting No.148 entitled, "The Meeting of the Spirits" finished today (July 13th 2010).Here i have captured an afterlife meeting between Jesus Christ,Adolf Hitler and King Henry VIII.Jesus raises his finger raising an issue, while Hitler gazes into the flames reflecting the brutality of his former regime.This interaction between the three, conjures up fascination of the mystery of what these individuals would discuss were they to be brought together in such desolate intimacy.Sold to Tonbridge,Kent,England.

No.147 School Photograph

This is painting No.147 entitled, "School Photograph" on a 24"x24" canvas which i completed today (July 12th 2010).Here i have attempted to capture the reality of the typical school photograph.The twisted,miserable expressions an indication of what is really being felt beneath the skin.Everybody involved appears disinterested, including the teacher,despite the insincere smiles which often appear on such pictures.They have bright and positively coloured shoes, indicating their collective desire to leave as soon as possible.Sold to Tonbridge,Kent,England.

No.146 Magician Flushing Body parts

This is painting No.146 entitled, "Magician flushing Body Parts" painted entirely yesterday (July 6th 2010).Here the magician is dismembering and flushing the body parts of his assistant.As the viewer, you are uncertain wether witnessing a stage performance or a truly sinister act being committed in macabre privacy.A stage if real,or a kind of morbid mortuary if real.A dark "Disappearing Trick" for the assistant who never lived to knowingly participate.Sold to Kidderminster,Worcestershire,England.

No.145 Shark and Butcher

This is painting No.145 entitled, "Shark and Butcher" featuring on a 24x24" canvas.I wanted to capture here a kind of sinister karma, with a butcher out of context like a "Fish out of water".The mysterious black lumps in the foreground could horrified onlookers on another vessel, or rocks, or whatever your personal interpretation is conjured up.Sold to Halifax,West Yorkshire,England.

No.144 Encounter by Candlelight

This is painting No.144 entitled, "Encounter by Candlelight" on a 12x12" canvas, created entirely yesterday (July 4th 2010).The fly is oblivious to it's imminent death as the spider, by chance, stumbles upon this spooky funerial scene, it's presence completing it's sinister nature.The decaying apple attracts the fly, the fly attracts the spider,making the apple a kind of vaccum (Maybe the spider will soon attract a human with a swatter or rolled newspaper, bringing about it's demise?) with oils as always.Sold to Glasgow,Scotland.

No.143 An Aborted Genius

This is painting No.143 entitled, "An Aborted Genius" and features on a 12x12" canvas.I wanted to capture here the way abortion affects the world in a ripple effect, in terms of how the world would be today if aborted children were here (How would our world be if Shakespeare,Hitler,Beethoven were terminated?).It ponders whom we've lost without ever knowing.Sold to Halifax,West Yorkshire,England.

No.142 The Ballerina

This is painting No.142 entitled, "The Ballerina" which i painted very early this month (July 2010) on a 12x12" canvas.Here i have attempted to capture the unbearably thwarted career.The Girl is viewing herself for the first time in ballet class in the mirror following some kind of enigmatic tragedy and turns from the mirror towards us in utter mental despair.It has the "Christopher Reeve" quality of once being a Superman in terms of exceptional ability, only to have that cruelly stripped.Of course the wheelchair could be a metaphor for a drug addiction which can also degenerate performance.Sold to Israel.

No.141 Boy Stroking Cow with Hamburger

This is painting No.141 entitled, "Boy Stroking Cow with Hamburger" painted entirely today (July 1st 2010).This is based on a real life incident i experienced,whilst performing with my father several years ago in a musical duo at Sarre Windmill.There were various animals sporadically around, and i saw a boy of around five years old lovingly stroking a cow with one hand, with a burger in the other.This disturbing vision has stayed with me ever since.

No.140 Jailed Escapologist

This is painting No.140 entitled, "Jailed Escapologist" painted entirely last night (June 30th 2010).I wanted to capture the sheer mental and psychological torment of an imprisoned escapologist, who is condemned to remain in a situation he cannot get out of despite his experience and expertise in this field.The chaotic,disordered colours are a reflection of his state of mind,as being unable to escape has made him feel like his escapology was a kind of fraud,or causing him feel like ultimately,a professional failure.Sold to Suffolk,England.