This work was specially commissioned for the recent wedding of George Calombaris in Athens. It reflects on the Greek Legend of Prometheus stealing fire back from Zeus. For a celebrity Chef, fire is an essential part of his tool kit, an element to be used, tamed and at the same time always respected. Fire is…
This piece was completed in 2015. Inspired of course by the Motown song which was a significant part of my misspent teenage years. The colours and patterns evoke the popular conception of an era. A time for which the young were finding a new and exciting vision of a positive future, one so far removed…
On butterfly wings. We fly so often on butterfly wings, our hopes and dreams exposed, and where the winds will carry us no-one really knows. FGD.2015.
LEY LINES. The lines laid down by pilgrims who walked our holy land, by walking boots that leave their mark like footprints in the sand, by star crossed lovers wandering as in some living dream, by lonely souls who search for peace like ghosts who can’t be seen, by children on a sunny day who…
This piece has not been exhibited at all, it was completed ten years ago in 2005 and is called ‘Long Landscape’. It is a response to Devon’s wonderful fields that criss-cross this beautiful part of the world. I thought it would be a good match for a poem I wrote on this blog a couple…
I wrote this poem in 2009. It talks about those doubts we all have about our ability to cope with the things life throws at us; that growing insecurity that creeps up on us in the dark times when the hope disappears and a sense of inadequacy takes over. I hope it can help you…
NEEDS. We all need to be needed, everyone’s the same, be they poor as a church mouse or wallowing in fame. Someone out there needs you, someone you don’t know; someone with the same dreams, someone you know well, someone you had wished you’d met, with a tale to tell. Someone kind and someone not,…
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