CONVOY, 2009

Got it done...

Convoy, 2009
oil on canvas
35 x 44.5 cm.

A Tribute to the Merchant Seamen of World War Two

This well-known photo shows a convoy of merchant ships getting ready to sail to Britain from Bedford Basin, the splendid harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photo is from A Nation Forged in Fire by J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton:

Long weekend staging

The royal estate

Listening to Bruckner "Mass nr 2 in E minor" and Signer's new album

o o o

Lying in bed and really enjoying looking at assorted works on the wall. The one in the middle is a oil-pastel work on paper by Daniel Phillips.

Wire-frame 20c dolly mixture and steak-cut fries

A girl sitting in front of me on the bus was wearing a hoody made from a fabric printed with this beautiful design.

NO VACANCY, 2008

No vacancy, 2008
oil on canvas
24.5 x 20 cm.
private collection

Listening to Morton Feldman

Philip Guston Morton Feldman hair

I saw a statue/bust in a shop window which reminded me of Morton Feldman's hair via Philip Guston:


That's Guston on the left and Feldman on the right:

This is Morton Feldman by Philip Guston:


Philip Guston Friend - to M.F.
(painted in 1978, after their estrangement in 1970.)

THE PROPHET, 2002

The prophet, 2002
oil on canvas
50 x 52 cm.
private collection

Scott Walker

PAY AS YOU GO, 2002

Pay as you go, 2002
oil on canvas
36 x 25 cm.

NEVER HAD A NAME, 2008

As per previous post.. now well and truly finished:


Never had a name, 2008
oil and enamel on canvas
96 x 46 cm.
private collection

Never had a name...

Started in 2003 as an experiment in mixing oil and enamel house paints,


and put aside for some time. Resurrected last year:

ARE YOU DIGITAL?, 2003

Are you digital?, 2003
oil on canvas
75 x 78 cm.
private collection

BLOCKADE SCENARIO, 2009

Blockade scenario, 2009
oil on canvas
34.5 x 45 cm.

This is a lost painting, with no real name

I started it in early 2005, but in a studio move later that same year it somehow fell by the wayside. It just disappeared!!


As you can see, it was huge. I intend at some point to recreate it at a somewhat smaller scale. Notwithstanding that, I hope you are happy, unnamed painting, wherever you are.

MODERNIST PAINTER, 2008

Modernist painter, 2008
oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm.

Archaengle Thunderbird Cerberus

Something I am starting out on:

"is painting bones, pink ones, like great big dogs cocks"