Artist
Buckinghamshire UK

            I am inclined to paint in series, having an idea, then developing that idea to its full potential, unaware of the paths it will present to me. The first, a series of chess paintings portraying the calculated thoughts and emotions involved in chess play. Many works from this series are painted in oil on wood, using brown as the predominant colour and the grain of the wood to emphasise the chess theme. The painting ‘Metamorphosis on the Eighth Rank’ portrays the changing of a pawn to a queen as it reaches the last rank on a chess board.

             Following the chess series, I devised a technique of painting hands in watercolour, using the translucency of the medium in layering and washing the colours to achieve a skin effect. I have painted several works using this technique, trying to reflect the paramount issues in life. An example of this is the environmental painting ‘The Last Glass Ball’, which symbolises the last fragile object left on earth and ‘The Wave’, symbolising aggression and desire.

          In the third and most recent series I have utilised the strength of colour in acrylic to paint floating orbs, depicting the cosmic independent elements in the creation and destruction of the universe in a contrived but random design. This series is ongoing and is now being developed further.

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