The Natural World
Landscapes & Flowers
'Hill at Sotira.' Oil on canvas. 45 x 40.5 cm. SOLD.
'Mediterranean Garden.' Mixed media on rough toothed hand-made paper. Image size, 40 x 29 cm. Comes in a simple white wood box frame. Overall size 55 x 42 cm. Available to buy. €350, framed.
'Terraces at Balafia, San Lorenzo, Ibiza.' Chalk pastel painting of ancient terraces and old farm buildings nestling in the lee of a dark, wooded hill in the background. Chalk pastel on coloured paper. 67 x 97 cm. Available to buy. €350, unframed.
'Olive, Mimosa and Thistle' Watercolour and dipping pen-and-ink on fine watercolour paper. Image size 24 x 24 cm. Can be mounted, size to suit. €250
'Dawn Light.' Watercolour and Derwent Inktense pencils on fine watercolour paper. The image measures 24 x 24 cm. Can be mounted in a passe-partout, size to suit. €250
'Sunset Pines.' Watercolour, gouache, chalk pastel and pen-and-ink on watercolour paper.
'Row of Cypress Trees.' Oil on canvas mounted on board in an integral, hand-painted wooden frame in ivory white. Framed size 68.5 x 57.5 cm. Available to buy, €600
'View to Kissonerga.' Oil on canvas mounted on board in an integral, hand-painted wooden frame in ivory white. Framed size 79 x 78.5 cm. Available to buy, €800
'Es Vedra, Blue' Watercolour on fine watercolour paper. Image size 28.5 x 20 cm, Mounted in white passe-partout. Final size 40.5 x 32 cm.
'Es Vedra, Red Earth.' Watercolour on fine watercolour paper. Image size 21.5 x 28 cm, presented in a white mount. final size 25.5 x 30 cm. €150.
'Mysterious Es Vedra.' Watercolour on fine watercolour paper. Image size 22.5 x 29 cm, presented in a a soft-white mount. Final size 34.5 x 39 cm. €150
'Meadow,' oil on stretched canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Available to buy, €600
'Lavish & Exuberant,' oil on stretched canvas, 45 x 45 cm. available to buy, €750
'Reaching for the Sky,' oil on stretched canvas, 45 x 45 cm. Available to buy. €750
'You Are the One.' Acrylic on stretched canvas. 30 x 30 cm. Available to buy, €300
'Glow in the Dark.' Oil paint on stretched canvas mounted on board, set in an integral frame painted in black. The painting works particularly well in dark locations. Canvas size 20 x 40 cm. Framed size 56 x 36 cm. Available to buy €450
'Delight in the Sky,' oil on stretched canvas, 30 x 42 cm. Available to buy. €450
'Loyalty.' Oil on stretched canvas size 45.5 x 35 cm. Framed size 64 x 53 cm. €600
'Narcissi.' Watercolour and ink on paper, presented in a white mount. Image size 27 x 36.5 cm. Available to buy. €200
Why Landscapes and Flowers..?
‘When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s yours for the moment.
I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want or not……….Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.’ (Georgia O’Keefe)
From the very start, this earth that we inhabit - its textures and contours, its moods and lights, it colours and perspectives - is what works the greatest magic on me. Deprived of my contact with land, sea and air, something inside me dies. It goes without saying, then, that it must always be an important source of inspiration, to me. Sometimes that might become a representative sketch or painting. Sometimes the medium has been the earth itself. Often, though, I'll find myself transforming that landscape into an abstract piece, either by intention or by default.That might be determined by the medium I am working in, or simply because I find that abstracting it is the most effective way that I can capture the essence of my experience.
When something catches my attention enough for me to want to turn it into a painting or drawing I know it is because I want, somehow, to absorb it into my being. Drawing is one way to get drawn into a thing. Looking at something intensely to understand every nuance of light and shade and every flick of movement or change of direction - this is what merges me with it in a way that forever alters my relationship with it. Taking time to look at it closely, I see it differently, not just for a while, but for always.