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Clowns Around A Table

A Rich hyper-real image of 3 unsettling female clowns in various states of undress. At the same time titilating, comical and disturbing. The surrounding destruction hints at a dangerous undertone, but delivers intense detail. The vibrant colours deliver a cheeky mood, but image has a restricted colour palette. Upon closer inspection, you'll notice that it's not 3 clowns, but 3 aspects of the same clown.

Several techniques are borrowed from modern digital cinematic film-making to construct an impossible image with impossible vibrance, which is then used as the starting point for this work. The model was posed against green-screen with great precision, using stand-ins to allow the 3 characters to interact when composited.

I find the concept of 'multiplicity' very intriguing - creating a reality which cannot exist; but simple duplication doesn't work. There has to be interaction.

8 separate images of the derelict background with different exposures were fused to create high-frequency detail which holds up to endless scrutiny.

The clown's outfit is based on one used in Pantomime by Barbara Windsor on stage in the UK, during the 1970s.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 28x19 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

44, The Shambles

A surreal, stylised illustration of York's most famous and oldest street, The Shambles. A variety of techniques including HDR and digital manipulation are used to create a fairytale, medieval feel with impossible colour.

A hooded, besandled figure carrying a lantern could be expected to appear from around any corner at any time. The history of The Shambles is as rich as the history of the City of York, one of my favourite places.

The venue '44 The Shambles' itself no longer exists but The Shambles will remain for as long as York stands. The city's famous Ghost Walks make appropriate use of the intense atmosphere found here.

Many people think The Shambles was used for the location filming of 'Diagon Alley' in the Harry Potter films. It was not - but it most certainly influenced the design. Many also associate the town of 'Ank Morpork' from Terry Pratchett's Discwold novels with this curious relic of a street.

I find the daytime tourists overwhelming and that The Shambles is best experienced after hours, when the history and atmosphere become thick and tangible.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 14x21 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

Lady Of The Lake

Classical 'masters' oil portrait style of classical pose with rich dark detail of dense autumn (fall) woodland background and a rusty crimson autumn leaf covering on the ground. A modern artwork in a classical style with deep crimsons, blues, greens and painstaking detail.

It may appear at first that there is no Lake for this Lady. However, the image was inspired by the wooded eastern shores of Coniston Water in the Lake District, England, one of my favourite "secret" places. The model used to create the pose, now an internationally known model of some fame, grew up in the area. The obfuscation of the Title is deliberate. There is no visible lake and she is clearly stood in woodland, but a Lake (to my mind at least) is implied a short distance to the left as the trees thin out.

I wanted to create an image which could easily be mistaken for one hundreds of years old, in style and content.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 19x28 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

Dragon Lady Faded Glory

A richly detailed portrait with strong Gothic and Georgian overtones. Intense detail of fabric, lace and age-darkened woodwork contrast with the simplicity of the forlorn expression. The questions raised by the opulent but tattered dress, heartbrake and crumbling splendour which surrounds her outnumber the answers given.

This portrait, like my other 'Dragon Lady' images are inspired by a Jacobean Manor House at a location very special to me - but one which must be kept secret to protect it and the incredible heritage it contains. The location is the birthplace of the 'St. George & The Dragon', and all other similar English 'dragon slaying' legends.

The hero / slayer of the original tale, which inspired amongst many other things, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, is a direct ancestor of mine.

For this beauty as with her name-sake beast, the glory of fiery passion is long gone, but the legend lives on.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 19x28 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

John's Door

Unusually detailed watercolour style image of an arched chapel entrance with the door ajar, allowing sunlight beams to enter. A restricted and muted green brown pallette adds a natural warmth. The feet of a stone figure lie on the ground just out of reach. The open door exits from earthly stone religion to a brighter world outside.

Watercolour never seems to carry enough detail for my taste, so I created as much texture and detail as possible. I also wanted to create a distraction - just when you think the door is open and route is obvious, something catches your eye; the stone to the right.

The image is based upon a real chapel in the North of England, which is no longer consecrated and has fallen into ruin in the grounds of a privately owned Manor House. However, the ancient relics remain.

Who is John? One answer would be the stone figure, once adorning his own tomb, now scattered casually on the floor. Another answer would be John Dashwood. Both ancestors, both relics. Both just out of reach.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 19x28 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

Terris Novalis Nova

Tony Cragg's 'Terris Novalis' sculpture dressed in NASA gold foil, pointing up towards an electric purple sky, expecting to measure, discover and observe.

The real sculpture of 'theodolite and level' sits almost unnoticed behind a traffic junction in a small faded industrial town in Northern England.

The image started life as a series of High Dynamic Range photographic stills, covering around 10 stops of light. These were digitally enhanced and merged to bring out an invisible texture in the sky. The warm NASA glowing gold foil is far more commanding and implies more than the cold steel used in construction. Some considerable work went into preserving and re-creating the detail in metalwork and lizard feet in particular.

The sculpture asks its own questions. What is it looking for, why is a small object placed so large in such an obscure location? However when seen in real life, to my eye the sculpture is little more than a park curiousity. What's missing is drama. Excitement.

The objects speak of journey and discovery, but lack adventure. I wanted to give electric power to the sculpture, the sky, the potential discovery and the impending voyage.

'Terris Novalis' means New Ground. We should venture out into the stars to find it.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 28x19 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.

Whilst Beauty Sleeps

A hyper-real oil painting style scene, straight out of a twisted gothic fairytale. The overwhelming detail in this artwork commands close inspection. The wallpaper has long gone and even lining falls away as the wood accumulates dust. I can almost smell the crumbling plasterwork.

The past always asks so many questions and has so many stories to tell, especially when the history is so evidently still present, untouched and forgotten.

It's a dilapidated piece of furniture in crumbling ruin, but a beauty once slept in this room. She sat at this dressing table for makeup and hair. Some young maiden, now long dead and buried, laughed and cried as she dressed. Who was she? Why did she abandon this particular piece of furniture? What happened? To my mind, the story is always in the unseen.

The inspiration for this picture is a near-derelict Victorian House. Forgotten and left to rot and ruin for almost a century. It has now been purchased and developed, but I hope the magic I found there lives on in this picture.

Whilst Beauty slept, the world crumbled around her. It's as if the House itself wants to reveal the forgotten story.

USD $1285.00


(Images here are for illustration purposes)

  • Mount: 3 inch approx.
  • Picture size: 28x19 inch approx.
  • Fine quality Giclée reproduction on special archival paper for sharpness, colour fidelity and decades-long colour retention. Acrylic anti-glare glazing. Comes complete with fixings for hanging.