Chess Pieces (2013 - 2018)
Fool's Mate (ink and pencil on paper. 34 x 34 cms)
Deep Blue (ink and acrylic on paper. 34 x 34 cms)
Cornered (ink and pencil on paper. 34 x 34 cms)
Castle (ink and acrylic on paper. 34 x 34 cms)
Knight Moves (Acrylic and pencil on paper. 34 x 34 cms)
Dead Flowers
The Book of How
Once upon a time there was a girl who didn’t know how to draw a picture. Her pencil would only write, but it refused to draw a picture. Words, words, words flowed from her pencil. ‘I don’t want more words,’ she cried. But words, words, words again. Words making sentences, clauses, santa-clauses, sub-clauses, nouns and never would she split an infinitive, but no pictures. Then she wrote: I want a camera.
A quirky, nonsensical collection of tiny, exquisitely illustrated stories offering an absurd solution to everyday tasks. A manual for the inept; for childlike adults and grown-up children. The Book of How is available to buy from Amazon here and from the Book Depository here
An everyman and other Imaginary Creatures
The function of an everyman is to create a fictional character with whom everyone can identify, and is a device dating from the 15th century when it wouldn’t have mattered that 99.5% of the population of the planet doesn’t easily identify with the single white male.
For me, an everyman was simply an excuse to invent imaginary creatures and their eating habits.
Birdboy: easily hurt, totally unforgiving and with a heightened sense of justice, Birdboy eats olive branches.
Haloed Felis is worshipped and revered, answering only to the effanineffable, which is known only to the oddly inaccurate.
Carnivore.
Dragons, the policeman knew were supposed to breathe fire and occasionally get themselves slaughtered. Eats love in a mist.
Monoman: Inbred, coming from a narrow gene pool, the Monoman suffers from such minor ailments as a permanently blocked nose. Whinges bitterly and eats Twisted Hazel.
