Gallery 2

Simple Scene

A3 Acrylic on canvas textured paper.

Simple Scene

Have you ever been bored of the day in, day out? Routine can be oppressive. The same old thing, the same old comings and goings, the same old environment. It gets heavy, claustrophobic.

Lemon Yellow

A3 Acrylic on canvas textured paper

Lemon Yellow

Another one of the images that came to mind as I put my head down to sleep. I heard once that the best colour to contrast against black is yellow. Lemon Yellow does so especially well.

Depressed Flower

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Depressed Flower

A gentle, fragile sort of sadness. A sigh. Represented here with a depressed, wilting flower against the heavy darkness of emotion.

Image From A Dream

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Image From A Dream

Once, whilst dreaming, this very image appeared. It felt right that I paint it. What you see is exactly what I saw.

Time Is Decay

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Time Is Decay

This work deals with the frustrations of being stuck in a situation long term. Seeing life pass you by. Life, that when you look towards it was full of the things you'd hope for, but, when you get to that time, it's not at all how you wished. Time takes your life and rots it, consumes it. Time is decay.

Ramparts

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Ramparts

There are several ideas here. Being small, being unable to see what is ahead, doom or joy? Is it dawn or dusk? I wanted a sense of foreboding. A castle is ideal. Looking over the ramparts what would you be faced with? A besieging army or a fairytale landscape?

Flutter

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

A butterfly. A heart. Love can be beautiful like a butterfly. It can also be as short lived.

Violet And Peach Composition

A3 Acrylic on canvas textured paper

Violet And Peach Composition

One of those pieces which came to mind at night. It's almost like a leopard's skin, if leopards were violet and peach.

Purple Sky

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

‘In my field of paper flowers, and candy clouds of lullaby. I lie inside myself for hours, and watch my purple sky fly over me'

Inspired by a song - 'Imaginary'
(B. Moody/Evanescence)

A song that is comfort in the woes of unrequited feeling.

Hole

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Holes. Things go into them and things come out of them. Is the hole here the origin or the destination?

Descent

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Sometimes, everything seems to serve to pull us down. You only need to get onto one bad thought, then it leads to another, and another. Then your heart gets involved, pulling you down, further and further into a personal hell. But without a fight, almost willingly led down, perhaps out of habit. An addiction to woe.

Street

A3 Acrylic on canvas textured paper

Like a black worm, this idea started as a black line in my mind which worked it's way along, tracing the outline of the scene. An urban feel, with urban colours, neon skies and eerie glows.

Autumnal Wasps

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

I was sat in the kitchen and saw a wasp climbing up the window. It was a crisp autumnal day, with an autumnal sun shining. A very beautiful sight inducing a real feeling of peace . That moment inspired this image.

Heart, Poker, Chain

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

Heart, Poker, Chain

A heart being tortured, restrained, restricted, imprisoned. All things but free. Sometimes, it seems the heart is just for suffering.

Inner Children

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

I painted how I feel. Sad. Or, many faces of sad. Different colours because it is a sadness across the board, through, perhaps, every aspect of life. I painted how I feel.

Bit Of An Urn Bird And Stuff

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. NFS

A Bit Of A Bird, And Urn And Stuff

As titled. Just that. Much of my work is simply about putting to paper images which just flicker into my mind. Vivid images, but I'm not always sure of the meanings.

An Image Of Emotional Distress

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

An Image Of Emotional Distress

This painting is another of my expressions of hurt. It ‘appeared’ in mind whilst scrawling in my Journal Of Woe. It's about frustration, loneliness and despair at a situation that is without end. I think my subconscious was also expressing itself, and there are things revealed here I didn't realise at the time.

Pain You Can Get Your Teeth Into

A3 Acrylic on canvas textured paper

Pain You Can Get Your Teeth Into

Painted on same day as 'Descent' for all the same reasons. Back to the spiralling theme of my first piece, but this time with teeth. Sharp, cutting, grinding, tearing, ripping as you are pulled in. To where? I Don't know. I think Hell is endless. The more you look at the centre, the more it draws you in. It is almost hypnotic.

White On Grey

Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper.

A piece inspired by something I often see. Heavy rain clouds, offset by the sun catching the white of seagulls and lighter, softer clouds floating by. A really beautiful sight, full or drama and serenity at the same time. I wanted to capture it.