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Veronese's Dog   © Oil on board 50 cm high x 50 cm wide "There were three cloaked figures in this image, and then late into the night I painted them out, introducing a tattooed ass (!), a firework tree, and an urn. Blatantly, I outlined the

The Blueberry Horse   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide "I was taken by the blueberry bloom of the background trees and built the palette around those. This horse bolts freely from everything I know about horse anat

Fire Horse   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide "The exaggerated, tangled legginess of this lime-white horse makes it all the more vulnerable in the clutches of the Harpy."

Wassilly Hare   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide "Silly and Wassily, both. The early Kandinsky influence is all too present in the landscape, and admitedly, there's also something of Chagall there..."

The Pistachio Horse   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 35 cm high x 46 cm wide A white witch built of triangles and squares spooks a horse. Again, using the visual language of Russia and the folkloric theme.

The Fish Eye Horse   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 36 cm high x 47.5 cm wide The fish eye is both a hieroglyph and the Greek Ichthus, echoed in the eye of the watching harpy-crow which is looming ominously in the raining flame tree on t

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Ballet d'autruche (Act l)   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide Act l - The ostriches who have forever had their stolen feathers ruffled on the human stage, at last claim the limelight for themselves. Anthropomo

Ballet d'autruche (Act ll)   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 90 cm high x 60 cm wide approx. Act ll - The jazzy Piano Cat is inspired by Behemoth, the mischievous devil cat in Bulgakov's novel. The monocled figure in the ill-fitting

Ballet d'autruche (Act lll)   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide Act lll - Enter stage left, a funeral horse; stage right, Death in a Venetian plague mask, waits languorously.

Miss Otis   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide Miss Otis in the dressing room, bedecked with make-up and jewellery, regrets the passage of time.

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Amphora Dreams I The Pomegranate Tree   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide Amphora Dreams l, ll, and lll is a triptych - the images are connected by the walls of a Persian garden, and connected in theme by three trees. The figures ha

Amphora Dreams II The Kumquat Tree   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

Amphora Dreams III The Almond Tree   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

Firehorse   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide War horse and a dog of war unleashed - seeing Athens crumble in the 21st century provoked this image.

Pandemonium   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 61 cm high x 91 cm wide A Greco-Roman Bacchanalia, or a scene in Pandemonium – the city of darkness in John Milton’s epic poem 'Paradise Lost'. The image is a chaotic parade of circus acts an

Whacko-Graeco   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 40 cm high x 40 cm wide Sgraffito figures perhaps from the layers of history.  A vulnerable urn and yet another a civilisation are about to be brutalised. Allowing the background to do

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Dream Leaves Falling   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide The figure stares out while her subconscious thoughts fall silently behind her. The blanket, brocaded tree, garment and backdrop are all on one unreal, plain. The painting is

Persian VlII The Dreamcoat   © Oil on canvas 70 cm high x 70 cm wide The figure is of ambiguous gender but the coat is Jacob’s. "This image emerged because I was developing the floral blanket and carpet motifs and trying to find a new expre

Persian l The Rose Blanket   © Oil on canvas 70 cm high x 70 cm wide A visit to a major Gauguin exhibition is reflected here in the treatment of the tree and choice of palette. A Persian miniature of King Darius and Herdsmen inspires the co

Persian lX Dreamcoat ll   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

The Magnolia Blanket   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide Another instance where the image is quartered with the use of a horse blanket which becomes a canvas of its own. The cloak separates the quarter occupied by the tree, with a t

The Travelling Players   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

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Rosa Ispahan   © Oil on canvas 80 cm high x 100 cm wide

Jeu des Rois   ©   Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 121 cm high x 172 cm wide

Persian V - Tabatabai Tabriz   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 61 cm high x 91.5 cm wide

Jeu des Rois (Hexaptych)   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 121 cm high x 172 cm wide

Persian I Jeu des Rois (Top Left)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Persian II Jeu des Rois (Top Centre)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Persian III Jeu des Rois (Top Right)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Persian IV Jeu des Rois (Bottom Left)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Persian V Jeu des Rois (Bottom Centre)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Persian VI Jeu des Rois (Bottom Right)   © Oil on canvas 76 cm high x 76 cm wide

Night on Fire Mountain   © Oil and oil pastel on fine paper 74 cm high x 105 cm wide

Persian X - The Orange Rosette   © Oil on fine paper 62 cm high x 94 cm wide

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The Walnut Tree   © Oil on canvas 80 cm high x 100 cm wide The horse has stepped, unashamedly, out of a Persian miniature. The tree is painted in the style of Van Gogh, but is also of Persian garden extraction. It owes much to that finely m

Persian lll The Yew Tree   © Oil on canvas 80 cm high x 100 cm wide "I wanted to see if I could find the silence in the earlier "Walnut Tree" painting and place it in this painting, together with the fragile, ceramic roundness of the horse".

The Bay Tree   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

The Arabesque Blanket   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

The Temple Tree l (Diptych)   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

The Temple Tree ll (Diptych)   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 150 cm wide

The Temple Tree l & ll (Diptych)   © Oil on canvas 120 cm high x 300 cm wide

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Moghul l the Three Kings   © Oil on fine paper 97 cm high x 63 cm wide The Pavilion is of Moghul design and the elongated horses, Persian. The carpet seems oddly placed and painted freely to disturb the classic composition. This open lands

Moghul lV Sultan Stripes   © Oil on fine paper 93 cm high x 64 cm wide As in 'The Three Kings' there is an odd perspective,  with long vertical lines and angled enclosures. The carpet is placed in an open room so we don't know if we ar

Moghul ll The Turquoise Blanket   © Oil on fine paper 96 cm high x 61.5 cm wide A freer horse against a flat, frieze of richly blanketed horses in the foreground, with stark, striped awnings and a brocade backdrop - the composition is a patc

Moghul lll The Haloed Horse   © Oil on fine paper 87 cm high x 62 cm wide The disjointed horse-on-a-carpet theme is explored further with some wit. The fans act as halos for a hallowed champion and the figures are partly obscured, giving the

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Avocets   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 80 cm high x 120 cm wide

The Red Temple   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 62 cm high x 96.5 cm wide

On the Wire   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide

Spoonerisms   © Oil and oil pastels on fine paper 38 cm high x 38 cm wide

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