Oxford 2005 - 2006
I moved to Oxford in March to work at Oxford Brookes University. Inially,I spent months on my own, cylcling around the canels and rivers, going to movies, missing the sea and trying to find a way into Oxford as a place to live and work. For large chunks, I could not work in the studio and had no clue what to make work about.
After a Summer of painting in Cyprus, I proceeded to paint every evening, weekend and day off from teaching at Brookes. I had to do work for two Xmas themed shows. One inspired by Rosseau's Jungle pictures for the John Martin Gallery and the other at the Scottish gallery with the title 'The Human Condition'. Sometimes having a theme gets ideas going a gives you a prod in a way you you don't expect. I decided to make the rivers and canels of Oxford my jungle and cats the wold animals which inhabt it. More pictures will be added on this pages as work is completed.
In early 2006, I made a new series of painting for the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Oxford. The show had an Oxford theme, so it was a case of continuing where I left off before Christmas. Howeever, I wanted to make these pictures topographically convincing to make the locations believable. I had so little time to make detailede drawing, so for once the use of digitial photography was used. This certainly altered the kind of detail in the work, and was perhaps the reason why there are only six paintings as each took a considerable time to complete.
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Oil Painting |
'Big Cat on the Isis', 2005, Oil on Canvas, 25 x 20cm |
'Bird to Man', 2005, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 25cm |
'Cat Woman' 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'The Christ Church Giant Scotlsman', 2006, Oil on Panel, 50 x 60cm |
'Courting Amongst the Cats, (Isis)', 2005, Oil on Plywood, 23 x 27cm |
'Gusty Day on the Isis', 2005, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30cm |
'Have you got it..?', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'High Street Kebab Hut', 2006, Oil on Panel, 52 x 60cm |
'Hunters', 2005, Oil on Plywood, 23 x27cm |
'Giant in Iffley Road', 2006, Oil on Panel, 50 x 60cm |
Fighting them off', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'Insomniacs', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'Lovers at the botanics', 2006, Oil on Panel, 52 x 79cm |
'Post Opera Soap Opera', 2006, Oil On Panel, 52 x 79cm |
'Punters', 2005, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 46cm |
'Restless night', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'Scholars', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'Cat Lady on Bridge', 2005, Oil On Plywood, 23 x 27cm |
The Storyteller', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 33 x 38cm |
'Walk the Cat', 2005, Oil on Hardboard, 38 x 33cm |
Wild Cats on Donnington Bridge', 2005, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 25cm |
'Pidgeon Man', oil on Canvas, 2006 |
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Watercolour and Acrylic |
'alone', acrylic, 2005 |
Big man on mound', acrylic, 2005 |
'The Jungle River', 2005, Watercolour, 37 x 29cm |
'Rosseau's Roundabout', 2005, Watercolour, 27 x 24cm |
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Drawing |
'above the crowd' mixed media 2005 |
'adrift', mixed media, 2005 |
'big man for dinner', mixed media, 2005 |
'giant man in traffic' mixed media, 2005 |
'big plate', mixed media, 2005 |
'boat race', conte, 2005 |
'eating chips' conte. 2005 |
The Punter' 2005, Conte Pencil, 20 x 32cm |
'Footballers on the Plain,(after Rosseau). 2005, Conte Pencil, 36 x 28cm |
'landscape couple', mixed media, 2005 |
'Sleeping Punter', 2005, Conte Pencil, 36 x 28cm |
'The Bridge', 2005, Conte Pencil, 36 x 28cm |
'the bull dog', mixed media. 2005 |
'three people', mixed media, 2005 |
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