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Sherborne School Swing Band no 01
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 1
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 2
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 3
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 4
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 5
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 6
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 7
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 8
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 10
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Sherborne School Swing Band no 11
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019), Portrait of Trumpeter (2 short sittings)','white','hug image','20','none');)
Unfinished, Life Sized), Portrait of Trumpeter (2 short sittings)
Watercolour, some body colour - A3 (2019);)
Male back
Charcoal drawing - A1 (2016);)
E 1
Oil on prepared paper - 44 x 24 inches (2018);)
L 1
Oil on prepared paper - 44 x 36 inches (2018);)
Sh 1
oil on prepared card - A 1 (2018);)
St. Catherine , latest state
oil on board - 96 x 48 inches (2018);)
Centaur dame and downtrodden Apollo
Charcoal, pencil, heightened with gouache - À4 (2019);)
S 1
oil on prepared paper - 44 x 24 inches (2018);)
Colts, chilly evening at The Terraces
Photo - Digital (2018);)
Apollo 1
Oil on prepared paper - 44 x 24 inches (2018)![Acteon Hunted, open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center;\'>Actaeon hunted, Nature\'s revenge.</p><p>
Actaeon was wandering in the woods looking for his straying hounds <br />
when he, by chance, stumbled into a clearing <br />
where he witnessed the Goddess Diana bathing naked with her nymphs.</p><p>
Ovid says " she was renewing herself at a source" (a stream).</p><p>
The Goddess was indignant at his interruption and interferrance, <br />
no matter that it was unintended.
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<p>She turned Actaeon into a stag <br />
and he was hunted by his own hounds.<br />
His friends and fellow huntsmen <br />
hearing the full cry of the hound\'s voices <br />
joined in the hunt.</p>
<p>They called out, <br />
echoing the hounds voices ringing through the woods </p><p>
"Where are you Actaeon "<br />
"Where are you Actaeon ? You are missing a great hunt".</p>
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</div>'};ShowEnlargement_with_text('john-meaker-dorset-artist-art-work/IMG_20170816_1202553.jpg','259','600','John Meaker - Acteon Hunted, open to read...','white','hug image','20',text_to_display);)
Acteon Hunted, open to read...
oil on canvas - 72 x 30 inches (2017);)
S 2
Oil on prepared paper - 44 x 24 inches (2018);)
Boisterous Didicoy, open to read...
Oil on canvas - 48 x 36 inches (2018);)
Human Friezes, figurative transformation no. 15
Oil on canvas - 60 x 54 inches (2018);)
Human Friezes, figurative transformation no. 12
Oil on canvas - 60 x 108 inches (2018);)
Human Friezes, figurative transformation no. 10
Oil on canvas - 60 x 48 iches (2018);)
Human Friezes, figure transformation no.3
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017);)
Manichean, open to read...
Charcoal and chalk into oil paint on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2002);)
Human Friezes, figure transformations no.1
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017);)
Resonant Rural Idyll, the prima materia of the soul.
Oil on canvas - 60 x 54 inches (2018);)
Human Friezes, figure transformations no.2
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017)![Benign Nature ? open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Does Benign Nature tolerate Narcissus ?</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>We pay propitiation to the nature of Nature <br />
and lie down to repose in her arms.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Hollow Apollo, <br />
Anodyne Dionyssius, <br />
Hypnosis Gnososis, <br />
Narcissus Narcosis.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Fallen into that underground river</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>subversive of nature, <br />
a spectoral velvet flow to a digital sea.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Beecalmed in the soft glow of TV,</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>embalmed on the esculator of Angels,</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>separated from Gaia, from Diana,</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>"But I am Nature" says Jackson Pollock.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>His image mathematic<br />
in the river of traffic <br />
is something like energy, <br />
something Seraphic.</p>
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Benign Nature ? open to read...
Oil on canvas - 48 x 36 inches (2018);)
Kneeling figure
charcoal drawing - A1 (2016);)
Chivalry in Suspension, open to read...
Oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2018);)
E 2
Oil on prepared paper - 44 x 24 inches (2018);)
Migration, open to read...
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2017);)
Back 2 view
oil on prepared paper - 42 x 23 inches (2017)','white','hug image','20','none');)
They disdain to destroy us (stage 2)
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017);)
Poor Knights, open to read...
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2017).Behind the Saint is Abbotsbury\'s Chapel on the hill overlooking the sea and the Chesil lagoon. On her left is the ancient monastry of St. Catherine\'s at Sinai where her body was taken by Angels after her martyrdom. In the foreground I have attempted to give the wheel, the instrument of her martrydom a gyroscopic energy to enliven the idea of a Catherine Wheel. <br />
Historians suggest the Chapel was built as a shrine and a place of pilgrimage - holding a finger of the Saint brought back from the monastry of St. Catherine at Sinai. There are maybe 27 fingers of St.Catherine in Christian institutions around Europe. The Penguin Book of Saints says there is no historical basis for St.Catherine; she did not exist. <br />
But there is a well documented historical figure living in the same place at the same time as the fabled St.Catherine, 400 AD, about both women are told the same anecdotes, Hypatia of Alexandria. She was flayed alive in the street by Christians with oyster shells because she was a witch, they considered science was witchcraft.<br />
Hypatia was the daughter of philosopher Theon and like him she became leader of the Alexandrian Library. She was a Platonic Philosopher, a mathematician whose mathematics are still relevant, she was a scientist and invented the hydrometer, she or her team were responsible for the Astrolabe, the instrument of navigation for a thousand years.<br />
I have placed on her belt an Astrolabe; maybe this was the wheel of St.Catherine in the Christian story compensating a fairy tale Saint for the martyred significant woman of science and phlosophy. <br />
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St. Catherine of Abbotsbury or Hypatia of Alexandria, open to read...
oil on board - 96 x 48 inches (2017);)
Minor apocalypse, open to read...
Oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2018)<br />
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I find my desk in this Sheltered room, with it\'s little light,<br />
is an insecure refuge,<br />
while I consder chambers of darkness.</p><p>
<em>"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea,<br />
these are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man" W Blake.</em><br />
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The Sheltered Room, open to read...
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2017);)
Seated model no.1
Charcoal drawing - 40 x 23 inches (2016)![Johnny twitch, twitch; continuity drops a stich - it's about time... Open to read. - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center\'></p><p>
Johnny twitch, twitch<br />
continuity drops a stitch<br />
a missing link<br />
a nervous tick<br />
subconscious interruptions <br />
cavernous eruptions<br />
surface patterns change<br />
with undercurrent lightenings.<br />
There is a rift, a split, a chasm, crack <br />
between the limp and rigid spasms<br />
between the glance and concentration<br />
reality shifts.</p><p>
Cells rearrange,<br />
the continuous serpent is not transcendent.<br />
Johnny is a different person, now.</p><p>
Bodily seizure of a lucid St.Vitus<br />
paroxysm, convulsion,<br />
idiot gesticulation,<br />
articulate delerium,<br />
tremens daft divine,<br />
hysterical imbecile ambasador.</p><p>
A head pops up<br />
out of the material immersion<br />
and looks about astonished<br />
out of the sea of spirits<br />
when reality changes<br />
a shaman emerges.</p><p>
A flash of consciousness<br />
stolen from the pool of forgefulness<br />
into which we dip and decline <br />
our broken chain of sparks.</p><p>
Broken touches,<br />
impressions;<br />
our picture of the world<br />
built with lucid links<br />
and forged into a chain.</p><p>
Where have you been remaining the same? <br />
when Johnny\'s changed.</p><p>
Look alike is where it ends<br />
intimate strangers<br />
distant friends.<br />
Cliches resound in the memory<br />
familiar eyes and grimaces <br />
fall flat on stony faces.</p><p>
Johnny twitch, twitch<br />
continuity drops a stitch<br />
a missing link <br />
a nervous tick<br />
subconscious interruptions <br />
cavernous eruptions.</p><p>
Bodily seixure of a lucid St.Vitus<br />
paroxysm, convulsion,<br />
idiot gesticulation, <br />
articulate delerium<br />
tremens daft divine<br />
shamanic hysterical<br />
ibecile ambassador.</p><p>
Pagan mass for a living God<br />
is a confrontation.</p><p>
Sneeze,<br />
a sudden shock<br />
the evacuating spirit<br />
responding to illumination<br />
into the mouth the heart jumps.</p><p>
"Jesus is the imagination"<br />
it is a rude awakening <br />
when the heart misses a beat.<br />
and the Devil trips.</p><p>
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Johnny twitch, twitch; continuity drops a stich - it's about time... Open to read.
oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2011);)
Discotheque no.1
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2010);)
Dance and discotheque
Oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2018);)
Discotheque
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2014)![Pan and Syrinx open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center;\'>Pan and Sirynx
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<p>Refusing to become a Maenad <br />
a follower of Pan and a slave to instinctive nature<br />
Sirynx avoids and runs away from the advances of Pan.</p>
<p>So when her foot touches the water<br />
she turns into the rushes.</p>
<p>As Pan\'s breath touches her fingers<br />
those fingers are already formed into <br />
the rush hollow tubes of the Pan Pipes.</p>
<p><em>"Listen to the music of the reed, <br />
how it cries out to return to the reed bed"<br />
Jalaludin Rumi</em></p>
<p><em> </em>The human spirit returns to greater Nature, <br />
the source of creation.<br />
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</div>'};ShowEnlargement_with_text('john-meaker-dorset-artist-art-work/IMG_20170820_0840171.jpg','475','600','John Meaker - Pan and Syrinx open to read...','white','hug image','20',text_to_display);)
Pan and Syrinx open to read...
oil on canvas - 60 x48 inches (2017);)
Venus and Adonis 2nd stage
Oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2018)![Apollo and Daphne, divine proportion in Pursuit of Nature, open to read - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center;\'>Apollo and Daphne, <br />
Divine Proportion in pursuit of Nature
<p> </p>
<p>The Nymph Daphne <br />
chooses to become an enrooted tree,<br />
to "vegetate",<br />
rather than submit to be raped <br />
by the complexity of the God Apollo.</p>
<p>Daphne is shocked <br />
by the process of her transformation,<br />
Nymph into vegetable,<br />
paint into Nymph,<br />
Nymph into paint.</p>
<p>Here is another parable<br />
demonstrating the incompatibility <br />
of theory, science, divinity,<br />
with the nature of Nature. </p>
<p><em>Daphne turns into a tree,<br />
Nature turns into paint.</em></p>
</div>'};ShowEnlargement_with_text('john-meaker-dorset-artist-art-work/IMG_20170820_0828153.jpg','469','600','John Meaker - Apollo and Daphne, divine proportion in Pursuit of Nature, open to read','white','hug image','20',text_to_display);)
Apollo and Daphne, divine proportion in Pursuit of Nature, open to read
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017);)
Live Thou Fox, open to read..
oil on canvas - 48 x 36 inches (2017);)
Galahad introduced to the Siege Perilous, open to read...
Oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2018);)
The Urge to Emerge, open to read...
oil on canvas - approx. 42 x 36 inches (2017);)
Harlequin's Dilema
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2013);)
Amazons
Oil on canvas - 48 x 36 inches (2018);)
Beyond here there lies nothing
oil on board - 96 x 48 inches (2012);)
Diana and Actaeon no.1
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2013);)
Struggle with a Watcher
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2016);)
Acteon with his Hounds
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2016);)
Sketch for the Bland Leading the Bland
oil on board - 96 x 48 inches (2014);)
Powerhouse of Prayer, open to read...
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2013);)
Knight passing by no.2
oil on board - 96 x 54 inches (2011);)
Beltane
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2016)![2nd Metamorphosis - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>Metamorphosis</p><p>
<strong>"Here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyfe"<br />
</strong><em>Malory bk. xxi. v.</em>
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<p><br />
Turn and face <br />
the new race<br />
the stress to express,<br />
the urge to emerge <br />
from a dead and empty sheath.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>An emergency agency <br />
underneath<br />
peeling and revealing a transfiguration. </p>
<p>A poor shaman holds up the curtain.</p>
<p>Swathed in an old garment <br />
engrained with dust,<br />
encrusted <br />
with a chrysalis of neglect<br />
stained and bathed <br />
in contaminated ocean.</p>
<p>A divine cherub <br />
has the urge to emerge.</p>
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2nd Metamorphosis
oil on canvas - 38 x 38 inches (2009);)
Come On Dancing
oil on canvas - 60 x 32 inches (2017);)
the Amorous Nature of Negative Space
oil on canvas - 60 x 52 inches (2017);)
Domestic Chivalry
oil on canvas - 72 x 60 inches (2014);)
Fox and Geese
oil on canvas - 72 x 48 inches (2016);)
Lunging Armstrong
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2017);)
Glimpsed Quarry
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2017);)
Collaborating and contending, two Natures.
oil on canvas - 72 x 34 inches (2010);)
Be quiet or else, speak better than silence.
oil on canvas - 48 x 30 inches (2015);)
Expeditionaries
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2014);)
Kneeling
oil on canvas - 36 x 26 (2017);)
Contained in the Stone
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2009);)
Feral Muse
oil on canvas - 36 x 32 inches (2015)![The Atom's Headlong Career, open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>In the void fortuitous collisions of traffic, <br />
the atom\'s headlong career is too quick and too loose, <br />
drivers are infected with silly season <br />
leading to perverse combinations.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Into the folds of the black flag falling <br />
angels and daemons go spashing and sprawling. <br />
Unlimited creatures short of the mark <br />
struggle and rush and crush in the dark.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>In our generation affluence and desolation, <br />
the cup of the spirit was filled to overflowing. <br />
I cry out as one of the wasted, <br />
"if there\'s honour in garbage and gore <br />
what in the world was I put here for ?"</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Physical children healthy and struggling, <br />
cuckoos in their parents nests, <br />
asserting themselves stomping and bugling <br />
against the persuasion their energy is waste.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Millions are falling only one is surmounting <br />
excepting that one my God is not counting. <br />
There\'s danger for you if you follow a calling, <br />
the plane of these people is level and boring. <br />
They\'re jealous of logic and passion and calling.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>In an orgy of misrule a mock King was created, <br />
fool\'s paradise instated. <br />
Self deception reigned. <br />
The truth was thus maligned <br />
as a dangerous and enduring rogue<br />
a ............. something dog is best subdued and confined.</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center;\'>Lifetime with our energy we infuse your timid rhythm <br />
becoming like time we move the revolutions.</p>'};ShowEnlargement_with_text('john-meaker-dorset-artist-art-work/DSCF3085large.jpg','557','600','John Meaker - The Atom\'s Headlong Career, open to read...','white','hug image','20',text_to_display);)
The Atom's Headlong Career, open to read...
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2013);)
Bankers. I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of...
oil on canvas - 72 x 48 inches (2010);)
Knight's Vigil, open and scroll down to read...
Oil paint on board - 96 x 96 inches (2007);)
Esplumoire
oil on canvas - 72 x 54 inches (2011);)
Jacob & Angel 1
Oil paint on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2007);)
Metamorphosis. "Here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff." Malory bk. xxi. v.
oil on canvas - 38 x 38 inches (2008);)
Creatures of Logic, open to read...
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2013);)
Accumulating Virtue
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2010);)
Vigil invaded
oil on canvas - 48 x 44 inches (2011);)
Binding of Christ, open to read...
Physical man inhibiting man of the imagination. Oil on board. - 104 x 56 inches (2008);)
Seated nude 12 a
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Seated model no.2
Charcoal drawing - 42 x 23 inches (2016);)
Seated nude 2 e
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Seated model no. 3
Charcoal drawing - 40 x23 inches (2016);)
Seated nude 7 th
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Life Class in Edinburgh
charcoal drawing - 48 x 24 inches (1996);)
Seated nude 6 m
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
MJ expecting no.2
charcoal drawing - 40 x 26 inches (2015);)
Reclining nude 5 th
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
TM seated
charcoal drawing - 36 x 46 inches (2015);)
Seated nude 5
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
MJ expecting no.1
charcoal drawing - 40 x 26 inches (2015);)
Seated nude 12
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
SL seated
charcoal drawing - 36 x 46 inches (2015);)
Standing Nude 2 th
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Some life-size drawings
Charcoal drawing - Double A1 x 3 (2015);)
Seated nude 9 e
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Nude Charcoal Drawing no.1
charcoal drawing - 52 x 28 inches (2013);)
Seated nude 8 rm
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Nude Charcoal Drawing no.2
charcoal drawing - 52 x 30 inches (2013);)
Seated nude 4 p
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Nude Charcoal Drawing no.4
charcoal drawing - 52 x 30 inches (2013);)
Seated nude 3 sh
Watercolour - A 1 (2018);)
Nude Charcoal Drawing no.3
charcoal drawing - 52 x 32 inches (2013);)
Life watercolour portrait no.1
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
Seated Nude no.2
charcoal drawing - 48 x 26 inches (2013);)
Reclining nude no.1
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
Fullness
charcoal drawing - 60 x 32 inches (2013);)
no. 1 Male back view
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
Reclining Nude no. 2
charcoal drawing - 48 x 24 inches (2013);)
Male life no.1
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
Charcoal portrait
charcoal - 34 x 22 inches (2005);)
Reclining nude no.2
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
untitled 2
charcoal chunks, sticks, charcoal dust. - 47 x 23 inches (2007);)
no. 2 Back view
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
nude
charcoal - 35 x 23 (2007);)
Some A1 Life Drawings
charcoal - A1 s (2007);)
Lying nude no.1
oil on prepared paper - 2 x A1 (2011);)
Some Life Drawings, all bigger than A1.
Charcoal - All bigger than A1 (2007);)
Seated nude 13
Oil on prepared paper - 36 x 24 inches (2018);)
Life Drawings no. 2
charcoal - Larger than A1 (2008);)
Reclining nude 4 sh
Oil on sized card - A 1 (2018);)
seated nude M. no.2
oil on prepared paper - 2 x A1 (2011);)
seated nude M. no.1
oil on prepared paper - 2 x A1 (2011);)
Watercolour sketch no. 4
watercolour - A1 (2008)![Idealism & Domesticity no. 1. open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The Shepherdess sustains and nurtures the real world domestic idyll.
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<p>The aspirant knight\'s vision turns to the Sun Absolute<br />
which beckons towards a quest in hollow armour<br />
to seek for the ideal;<br />
beyond the confined horizon of this sweet settled life.</p><p>
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From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Idealism & Domesticity no. 1. open to read...
Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007)![Idealism & Domesticity no. 2. opeen to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Shepherdess can you show me the way ?</p>
<p style=\'text-align: center\'>Wanderer you follow an intangible ideal;<br />
I can only show you a tangible idyll.</p><p>
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<p>From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>'};ShowEnlargement_with_text('john-meaker-dorset-artist-art-work/miss + my own 049.jpg','800','536','John Meaker - Idealism & Domesticity no. 2. opeen to read...','white','hug image','20',text_to_display);)
Idealism & Domesticity no. 2. opeen to read...
Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007);)
Idealism & Domesticity no. 3. open to read...
oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2009)![Idealism & Domesticity no. 4. open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The wanderer must appreciate and rest<br />
these fruits of domesticity are an episode in the quest. </div>
<div style=\'text-align: center\'>The Shepherdess\'s code might require<br />
he change his aspiration from ideal to idyll.<br />
That he might see the glories of creation are near as well as far<br />
and an enlightened knight become a settled squire.</p><p>
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<p>From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Idealism & Domesticity no. 4. open to read...
Oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2007)![Idealism and Domesticity No. 5, Abandoned Knight. open to read... - click here to see an enlargement (opens a new window in front of this page)](javascript:{var text_to_display='<div style=\'text-align: center;\'>This Knight has gone native.<br />
He has abandoned his quest and his principles.<br />
Subsequently, he is in his turn, abandoned.
<p>From a series "Idealism & Domesticity". Inspired by William Blake\'s woodcuts for Thornton\'s Virgil.</p>
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Idealism and Domesticity No. 5, Abandoned Knight. open to read...
oil on canvas - 36 x 22 inches (2008);)
Idealism and Domesticity No. 6. Just passing through, open to read...
36 x 22 inches - 36 x 22 inches (2009);)
Hand to Hand 1
oil and charcoal on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2009);)
No. 3 Back view
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
"Short pose sketches"
Watercolour - All A1 (2008);)
back sketch 2
watercolour - A 1 (2008);)
Cartoon, from the parallel reality of Pinski van Dog
- A 3 (2008);)
"Active Art" 3
watercolour on cartridge paper - A1 (2008);)
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Sprawling Boy after Constable's "The Cornfield"
oil on board - approx. 36 x 32 inches (2008);)
After Pousin's "Landscape with Diogenes"
watercolour - A1 (2010);)
After Pousin
oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2012);)
An Abbotsbury View
watercolour - 26 x 20 inches (2008);)
Woods below the grassy knoll
watercolour - 20 x 15 inches (2009);)
Diogenes, after Poussin
Oil on canvas - 60 x 48 inches (2007);)
Portrait of Dave. Acrylic in the morning...
, dry over lunchtime, oil paint in the afternoon on prepared paper. - 38 x 22 inches (2006);)
Portrait of Martine
Acrylic in morning, dry over lunch, oil paint in the afternoon on prepared paper - 34 x 22 inches (2006);)
portrait
Soft pastel on toned paper - 34 x 22 (2007).','white','hug image','20','none');)
Beast emerging. (occult cartoon).
pen & ink - A3 (2008);)
Demonstration flowers in watercolour
watercolour - appox. 30 x 20 inches (2008)','white','hug image','20','none');)
Shadow dance (occult cartoon)
2002 - A 1 (2008);)
Artist and Model Reveal Themselves
oil on anvas - 42 x 28 inches (2008);)
Grail Maiden
oil on canvas - approx. 42 x 30 (1989);)
Centaurs
oil on canvas - 44 x 36 inches (2008);)
Reclining nude S i
Oil on prepared paper - 27 x 40 inches approx (2018)
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