Image: THINKING OF YOU. Mixed Media on Card. 15 x 15 cm. 2011. Dementia is a condition that affects so many, when memories have faded and time seems a mixture of confusing and disturbing recollections which come and go in misty waves on threads so thin they break as soon as they appear. It comes…
Image: RED RUM. Mixed Media in Canvas. 61 x 61 x 2 cm. 2015. LADY LUCK. As Europe is cautiously coming out of lockdown comparisons are inevitable, many experts feel that the UK was too slow to react which has led to one of the largest death tolls in the world. Looking at some of…
Image. Front cover, handmade. card. 2009. JUST REMEMBER. For years now I have been sending poems on handmade cards to my children and members of my family. This one was sent to my daughter to wish her good luck when she was taking her final exams as a doctor. At every juncture in our lives…
Image: MOON OVER ANTUGNAC. Mixed Media on Canvas. 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2016. Private Collection. TRAVEL. Yesterday I had a Zoom interview with Julie Brandon from the Artizan Gallery in Torquay. As one of her longstanding stable of artists, interviews are a lockdown initiative enabling artists to be a feature on the galleries…
Image: TODDLERS RACE. Gouache on Handmade Paper. 1986/7. STAY ALERT, CONTROL THE VIRUS, SAVE SCHOOLS. The race is on to open up our schools before the 1st June, starting with Nurseries, ( so far confined to the children of key workers) and Years 1 and 6 in Primary Schools. Also from June, the Government web…
Image: THOSE WIRELESS KNOBS. Mixed Media on Canvas, 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2012. Private Collection, Cornwall. THOSE WIRELESS KNOBS. If you associate like me and Van Morrison that wireless belong to the days of rock and roll, think again. As Wikipedia explains: The term wireless has been used twice in communications history, with slightly different…
Image: THE LAND OF THE TORS. Mixed Media on Canvas. 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2012 FREEDOM TO ROAM. Before I mount my familiar political soapbox, let me describe Dartmoor. The name ‘tor’ refers to a granite outcrop of which there are about 170 on Dartmoor which was designated as a National Park in…
Image: DON’T YOU WISH YOUR DAUGHTER WAS HOT LIKE MINE. Mixed Media Collage. 15 x 15 cm. 2015. LOOKING HOT IN LOCKDOWN. If you are still in lockdown because you can’t work out if the message means you should or should not go to work, and did they mean yesterday or tomorrow, or if can’t…
Image: BIKES TO BE MENDED. Gouache on Paper. ( for Reuben) July 29th 1989. Following Boris’ anticlimactic ‘First Steps’ broadcast yesterday I was reminded of the much more important first steps all those of us who have children treasure. However important the ‘unlocking’ process seems today, nothing can compare with our children’s first steps in…
Image: COB AND THATCH. Mixed Media on Canvas. 2019. STAYING HOME. How often have you said ‘ It’s a small world’? Being in isolation may well have changed your mind. Most of us know family and friends who seem to be a lot further away than they were before, be they in the nearest town…
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