Recent work 2016-17
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Clemens Street to circus Parade - Mixed media 2017
Past events play with the here and now on a walk through town.
Surprise of a distant waterfall on the slow River Leam and the heavy overhead cut of a Victorian railway.
A bygone circus dazzles in the Loft Theatre to the swoosh and clump of women’s archery in Jephson Park.
Elephants splashing in the river echo up through All Saints Church and over a myriad passersby weathered in the Pump Rooms wall of Leamington Spa.
(architecture in art)
Spotted Leam - Watercolour 2017
A painting inspired by the vivid colour field, emergent forms and events weathered on a Pump Rooms wall in Leamington Spa
Place de Gambetta, Bordeaux - Mixed media 2016
Workers’ lunchtime as the tourists come and go.
Villa Faenza bird man - Mixed media 2016
Sunshine in Emilia-Romagna. Breakfast laughter across the terrace. Wishing everyone could be here.
Elephant wash - Pencil and crayon on tinted paper 2016
On Leamington’s Victoria Bridge contemplating Sam Lockhart’s circus elephants of the 1880s.
Did they wash here in the river Leam?
What performance would enthral today’s audiences?
M6 dawn, pm Dubai - Ink and watercolour 2017
Early morning airport run painted from memory on the Emirates flight before Black Palace Beach spectacle of Dubai
Leamington Spa(ces) - Old Post Office - Watercolour on tinted paper 2016
Landscape in the weathered walls of All Saints Church evokes alternative setting for an adjacent Italianate building.