Paintings

The paintings currently on this site are recent ones completed between
1999 - 2000.

The series are painted on heavy paper in watercolour, pure pigment, inks and
dyes. Both paper and pigments are of the highest quality with an assured quality
of colour fastness. They should not however, be hung in direct sunlight and
never under non reflective glass.

Each painting is a kind of icon study, featuring an animal, insect, bird or flower.
In addition to the representation of a living thing (or two), there are fragments of
landscape; abstract realisations of clouds and the movement of air; fragments
of texts from my notebooks and musical notations which are inspired by the
voices of the animals or of the landscape in which they live.

In reviewing an exhibition in London, the Guardian Art Critic, Merete Bates,
described this kind of work as:

"like tiny exquisite icons or nature-maps, but much more.
They are illuminated manuscripts - fascinating insights into
the mind of a true 'poet' of nature"

1974 Park Square Gallery, Leeds UK
1975 Blackpool City Gallery UK
1976 Trion Gallery, London UK
1977 Hunter Gallery, Tennessee USA
1978 Embankment Gallery, London UK
1979 Gallery 351, Chicago USA
1980 Gallerie Lometsch, Kassel Germany
1981 The Glass Factory, Sydney Australia
1982 The Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide Australia
1983 Tynte Gallery, Adelaide Australia
1984 Liverpool City Gallery UK
1988 Christchurch Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1991 Kensington Gallery, Adelaide Australia
2001 The Hot Bath Gallery, Bath UK
2001 British society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Gallery, UK
London

Work in Private and Public Collections in 12 countries.
Commissioned works for BHP Australia; AMP Australia.
Collections in the Universities of Florida, USA; Oxford, Lancaster, UK;
Wollongong, Queensland, James Cook University, Australia.
Painting commissioned and reproduced by Readers' Digest Plc.