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| Matt's Haunted Chair |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
Matt's Haunted Chair
A conversation, a suggestion, inspiration, and this is the result.
The ghost is lazy, obese, immobile, thus it can only haunt a chair.
| Everyone Is Better Than Me |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
Everyone Is Better Than Me
I don't like the 'life is what you make it' brigade. They are everywhere.
And if they ARE right, then I'm clearly not a very good person and I'm thus totally incompetent when it comes to being alive
and making myself happy. Perhaps I just don't like being responsible for myself.
This image came to mind one Monday morning as I was plodding on with
the usual routine.
| I Was Anxious |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
I Was Anxious
I was sat on a stool, it was quiet. I was anxious, generally, about
everything. And in the midst of that feeling this image came to mind, a visualisation of my emotions at the time.
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
Untitled
I needed some painting therapy.
I took my paper, scribbled across it one way, then another,
then diagonally one way and then the other. Then I took the colour I felt right and started to fill in random bits. I ended up with this. It seems I have a fish, and it looks like it's stuck in a net. Perhaps
that is what I was feeling.
| 2D Existing |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
2D Existing
Another piece on the mundanity of everyday life. I tend to exist in
two places, which I alternate between. Work and home. A cellular life. But breaking out of that means a lot of emotion, a
lot of feeling, and sometimes, it feels safer in the boxes.
| Song Of The Spirit |
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| Acrylic on 20x16 inch canvas. |
Song Of The Spirit
This image had been in mind for several years. It was inspired by
a piece of music 'Song Of The Spirit' by Karl Jenkins. The sheer drama of the piece bought to mind images of heavy stormy
clouds, a raging, rolling sea and a ship being tossed about upon it. It is a heavily textured painting.
| The Not Butterfly |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
The Not Butterfly
The Subtitle for this piece is 'A Study In Self Pity'
‘Case
Notes’
'...And the chrysalis did open, but what emerged from it was no butterfly.
The creature was the stench of pure catastrophe. No wings did it bear, thus it could certainly not fly, and it's legs were
stubs of useless mutation. The sunlight burnt it and so too did the moon. Indeed the very air itself was suffocation unto
it. Oh that it would die and find peace! But no, for even death was repulsed by it.
So there it was, a mess of flesh, puss, eyes, teeth and throbbing
vein, unlike anything that should ever have been allowed to come into existence. It had no choice, but was left to suffer
every second, every day of it's appalling being...' (JD)
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| Wall |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper |
Wall
I have found this image to have different meanings for different people.
For me, it is about frustration. They way life denies you. Shows you things and then says ‘No, not for you’.
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Untitled
What do YOU see?
Do you see my point? People fail to see my
point. Some people fail to see THE point. And maybe if you look at something too closely, you won't see it at all.
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Untitled
My screams are in silence, my pain is forever,
my life is over.
There is a window on the stairs at work. When
the sun shines it leaves an imprint on the other wall. It was radiant once, and I wondered what things might be trapped in
there.
| Emotion Is A Torrent |
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Emotion Is A Torrent
I started digging, I asked for help, I fell
apart. I got a bit nervous.
When I say a bit, I mean quite a lot.
Emotion. Torrentuous. And you drown.
| Nowhere For My Life To Go |
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Nowhere For My Life To Go
I often feel like this. What is the future but teeth, tentacles, claws,
all waiting to grab/rip/devour you? Time pushes you forward, into the arms of terror. What is ahead but that which to fear?
That which will destroy us? I can't see anything nice in this direction. Nothing for me and nowhere for my life to go.
| A Statement Of Feeling |
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A Statement Of Feeling
This is obvious. This is how I was feeling.
However there is more to it, but you must
interpret that yourself...
| The Scenic Side Of Hell |
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| Acrylic on 20x16 inch canvas. |
The Scenic Side Of Hell
I'm sure that in all the hustle and bustle of fire and teeth and screams,
there is a rural, coastal side to hell. A sort of quiet place where not much happens, where there isn't much to do, or places
to go, or many opportunities for all sorts of things in life. So here it is. And it looks remarkably similar to where i live....
| Darkness Returns |
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Darkness Returns.
For a moment it did. Quite suddenly. Something
didn't turn out the way I hoped and the world went quite dark, quite fast. And, as usual, I had a visualisation to go with
it.
Again, the coast creeping into one of my pieces.
Perhaps not only because of where I live, but also as water is emotion. and the sea can be quite tempestuous. .
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| F*cked By The Layout/This So Called Team Work |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
F*cked By The Layout
Also titled ‘This So Called Teamwork’
A piece to express some work related frustrations I was having at
the time. Sometimes, painting is like talking in a different (more natural) language.
| Life |
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Life
All the paintings
in the world wouldn’t cover that subject This is one particular feeling I had about it. The way it dangles things in
your face then whips them away, as if to say 'See this? Well, it's not for you. How do you feel about that?' And of course,
it's not nice. Torturous, tormenting bully.
Torturous, tormenting bully.
| Cherubim |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
Cherubim
An image that just came to me one day. Just
like most of my works. My Cherub has green eyes and has got his fingers in his mouth.
| Out Of Reach |
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| Acrylic on A3 canvas textured paper. |
Out Of Reach
Where I live (as I write) is stupid. It's
cut off. Today I'm feeling there are so many hopes and dreams that just wont make it and that I myself am out of reach.
There is an obvious solution but I just can't
be that easy at the moment. I'm a wee bit stuck.
| Flower |
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Flower
My first canvas piece.
Just to show that I can paint
nice things too. A flower, and one that really comes to life in the evening as natural light fades and electricity glares.
| Abstract Form Of 'The Statement Of Feeling' |
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Abstract Form Of The Statement Of Feeling
As the title suggests, this is the abstract form of 'The Statement
Of Feeling'. The two works were painted at the same time.
| Forrest Witch |
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| Acrylic on 16x20 inch canvas. |
Forrest Witch
An image which appeared in mind just before I went to sleep. There
are themes of nature, mother nature, creation, birth, but also ugliness too. Viewers may be able to see other things here.
That's the joy of art..
| Lily |
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Lily
People often tell me to paint more flowers.
I was asked to paint some lilies and I did. In mind I saw them bursting from the canvas, bold and deep, and thus that is what
I painted.
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