Old Harry Rocks
A commissioned piece for a friend with fond memories of Studland, Dorset.
Welsh coast
Also available in my greeting card range
I learned some of the techniques from Tracey Elphick, a talented local artist. I am also an admirer of Mike Bernard’s work. I start off with some magazines and maps relevant to the area that the picture is about.
Beach at Polpean
A commissioned piece for someone’s 90th birthday
Indian Shanty Towns
These pictures began with newspapers which I collected around India. I loved the different scripts and I soon started to imagine how I could use them to depict high rise buildings. Thepictures need to be viewed large size as they contain lots of signs, notices and fragments of newsprint which convey messages about the extremes of wealth and poverty in India today. I also add little printed items to make the scenes interesting. You can keep finding more things to look at in any one picture. I have experimented with frames, distressing them in various ways and recently embedding Indian coins in them. Up until now I have created and sold nearly thirty Shanty Towns. They are all different, even though some of the elements appear in many of them. These pictures have proved very popular and I got lots of commissions as spin-offs from the first ones I put in exhibitions.
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Dhobi
Wherever there is water, there are people washing clothes and themselves. It seems to be a full time occupation for many. The women’s saris are usually immaculate and children go to school looking spotless. The writing on the building at the front says ‘PRESS OF SARIES…..ALL WORKS DONE WITH LATEST MACHINE WITH SAHSFICAION IN OUR SHOP’. ‘satisfaction’ – Love it! I photographed that on the front wall of a laundry in a town I was in.
Madurai Shanty
This was a commission and the customer wanted it in landscape.