A selection of paintings, drawings & jottings
Wall Decorations
Assorted Paintings from Down the Years
What's a painting really for?
If not to decorate a wall then what?
These daubs serve no purpose other than to conceal an unsightly picture hook.
Pebbles
2008
Acrylic on unframed canvas-board 20" x 30"
Cornwall
2011
Acrylic on unframed canvas 36" x 24"
No specific place in Cornwall, just elements that stayed in the mind after staying there
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The Machine
1988
Liquid acrylic on heavy watercolour paper
Comes of listening to too much Pink Floyd
Approaching Minas Tirith
1988
Liquid acrylic on heavy watercolour paper
Tolkien phase
Moonlight
1993
Liquid acrylic on line board 27" x 16½"
Moonlight, just that.
Not a Goddess of Moonlight
Not the spirit of moonlight
Just Moonlight
Nobody ever 'got' this painting...
Storm Of Wings
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
Tolkien of course - from The Return Of The King
"At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom."
My camera can't seem to get a decent picture of this painting
It's actually a lot more detailed than it appears here
But I do like the overall composition and idea
I intend to do more like this
Master Of Bag End
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
Tolkien again - Bilbo at home
(see the Bilbo drawing in the Tolkien gallery)
Parth Galen
Casein paint on watercolour paper
Tolkien yet again - very early picture
The only time I ever used this paint
It dried too quick and the picture is actually quite pale
Shouldn't We Have Climbed That One?
1988
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
This painting is silly - I admit it
It reuses the elf figure seen in other pictures
Elf - B
1987
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
An earlier appearance of the elf figure
Knight
1987
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
Autumn Shadows
1989
Liquid acrylic on watercolour paper
Donated to my place of work
Originally intended to decorate a large forbidding cabinet
The cabinet disappeared as soon as the painting arrived
For many years it hung, framed, in the Accounts Manager's office
Finally, it was presented to her as a retirement present
(see the Tiger drawing in the Pen & Ink gallery)