Portfolio V (2D)     Folk and Fable

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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

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 leaning hound from the foreground in Veronese’s 'The Wedding at Cana'.

This yoking together of incongruous parts and the stark palette make for an unusual image."

 

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

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 anatomy in a bid for free expression."

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."

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..."

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 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

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 the mount.

On the horizon, the curvature of the earth is lit by an atomic sunset.

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Pueblo II Loopy-Bird   © Oil on fine paper 90 cmhigh x 61.5 cm wide "The contours of a not quite Pueblo-like design with a few more 'Cumberland Sausage' loops added, more filigrees and a robust use of oranges gave me this. The busby-bush tr

Pueblo II Loopy-Bird   ©

Oil on fine paper

90 cmhigh x 61.5 cm wide

"The contours of a not quite Pueblo-like design with a few more 'Cumberland Sausage' loops added, more filigrees and a robust use of oranges gave me this.

The busby-bush tree holds it all up and the figs were scraped out of the oil with a palette knife."

Hoopie Gold Bird   © Oil on fine paper 90 cm high x 61.5 cm wide "I couldn’t resist this title – apologies to the Hoopoe Bird. This batik-like image turned out to have the striking colours that Nigerian women have on their gowns. The sunflo

Hoopie Gold Bird   ©

Oil on fine paper

90 cm high x 61.5 cm wide

"I couldn’t resist this title – apologies to the Hoopoe Bird. This batik-like image turned out to have the striking colours that Nigerian women have on their gowns.

The sunflower is very freely done. The Hoopoe Bird was often depicted on Egyptian tomb walls."

Pueblo lll The Norwegian Blue   © Oil on fine paper 90 h x 61.5 w "I enjoyed using a Pueblo inspired design and twisting the feathers out of it. Even more fun to me is the inference that the ancient Pueblo people live happily somewhere on a

Pueblo lll The Norwegian Blue   ©

Oil on fine paper

90 h x 61.5 w


"I enjoyed using a Pueblo inspired design and twisting the feathers out of it. Even more fun to me is the inference that the ancient Pueblo people live happily somewhere on a Monty Python cloud with The Choir Invisible, alongside the expired Norwegian Blue.

No surprise then that the tree is the sacred Ished-tree of Heliopolis."