This is a minor homage to Stephen Hawking (deceased recently) and Prof. Brian Cox, (very much alive!). Below is a series of photographs taken with my daughter Florence on one of her recent outings with a camera. Every now and again we go out and about to photograph interesting places. Florence took her own set of photos on this trip out. The ones below are mine. Taken using a Pentax K20D. Florence's idea was to create another dimension to an everyday surface. She bought four litres of black gloss enamel paint and poured it on to the wooden floor of a derelict property. I should add, at the time, the property was due for demolition. Once the paint had settled, the reflections of the surroun
General shot of one end of my studio. There are three parts to it: the first for painting, the second for designing, digital work and printing, the third for glasswork. Here are three new paintings in the 'Cherries - Capital Series' that are now underway. There will be ten in all. Capital No1 was completed a few months ago and can be seen below as well as on the 'Paintings' page in the Portfolio section of this website. There will also be a print series with the same or similar title, developed as a set along side these paintings. I am not sure how many prints will be in the series yet. They will be limited editions (10 maximum of each), as usual. The painting on the easel is Capital No3 unf
Six versions of the same print. One will be released as a re edited limited edition.
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