The Mighty Iillustration Friday Night

Well chuffed that I.F.N. chose a topic from my prints..
(Like a gentle, but bruising punch in the arm from one whom you admire)

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You'll find it covers the bases in multi-media drawing that you didn't need even know needed covering...
Massive 'frickinrespect' to ..Prozacville unt der 'Nadler' - Mama's Chicken Soup for the Soul indeed...


Recent post.. below

Tiny boat as if designed for (outer) Space - in progress

I'm not needing to rely on wheelhouse structures to create an 'engaging' composition today.
Oddly you can walk by a superdynamic form for years, until you draw it you can't see it..

Outing for the Fleet

Fleet taking some shape...

Added to the existing show at Dungeness Open Studios, Kent

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Tiny boat (narwhal)

I liked the tusk on this old soldier of the beach... So a naive approach to rendering the structure (thinking of scrimshaw)

Open Studios Dungeness - New Additions

Three new (tiny) paintings added to the current 'Summer Show'

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The Broom is a tool you can trust.

A good cathartic tidy-up in the Laboratory.... That's better now

Fleet - Ahoy - Awkward little bland beggar

Subject.
Working with great concentration... In a 'knowing' touristic painting style that I'm attempting to re-dignify.

This little one won't finish or re-establish itself - looking like the - "touristic style itself!"- another hour or so... put it up high for a little while...

New tiny boat

A slight change in tack. Bleached... Distressed, less descriptive










Subject.
In a 'knowing' touristic painting style that I'm attempting to re-dignify.

'Fleet' - Project - new paintings

A new Project.... 'Fleet'

Living as I do on a working beach surrounded by people making a good living from the sea. I have begun a project to joyfully document 'that which surrounds me' - boats, boats and more boats - I envisage 30-40 paintings (mostly tiny 12cm x 8cm) with larger exceptions - Ghost Ship (Higher resolution image on selection)

Subject.
In a 'knowing' touristic painting style that I'm attempting to re-dignify.

New painting - Blokes in the Evening

Blokes in the evening

A delicate moment between working men on the East-side beach as heavy weather approaches
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Now Showing - At Dungeness
Open Studios

An addition to the 'fine mess'
series of paintings and prints.

Dungeness Open Studios - Summer Show

Summer Show from the 5th of July 2007

Paintings allowing beauty without disrupting intention.

Small abstract paintings - Bright colour in a flat landscape - on show Dungeness Studio 2

Humming colours on small canvases in a white space. Ruminations on singular objects or actions.

Our new show is made up of single paintings, diptychs and two groups of four oil paintings on linen or canvas hung to suggest a disparate but coherent group.

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lino cut prints

Folding with 'nan'

Prints inspired by the beach at Dungeness in Kent

Tax letters - New Project - The Laboratory Dungeness Open Studios

A Taxing Life
This story illustrates a light hearted and poignant slant on the Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs tax return or repayment claim form. A lifetime's correspondence with the authorities dealing with taxation and payment.

Monoprints - Displayed under glass in a handmade wooden Tax 'Ledger'.