Category: oil

Don Giovanni Goes Garfield

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20″
July 2006

I forget the connection with Garfield. Don Giovanni was our cat, passed away November 2017. He never looked anything like the cat in the picture, abstraction or not. Him being a black cat and all that.

Zebra

Oil on canvas, 900 x 600 mm
May 2006

Very quick and simple, and a little smudged in the bottom right corner, but still a household favourite.

My Old Man

(He’s a Lot Like Me)

Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 ”
May 2006

After a photo. And after many, many years of not wishing to be anything like him, then gradually realising just how alike we are (and in how many ways we are not), and eventually accepting it all.

It’s my life through a father-and-son relationship. Pretty normal methinks.

A Bare Bear

Oil on canvas, 500 x 400 mm
November 2005

I had forgotten about this one but enjoy being reminded every time I visit my sister’s bathroom.

Cheetah

Oil on canvas, 200 x 600 mm
October 2005

My daily delight. My Cheetah sits on on the ledge in the stairwell and can’t be missed whenever you go up or down, unless you are distracted by one of the other paintings next to it.

Bride

Oil on canvas, 12 x 16″
July 2005

Our good friend Jananne, shown here celebrating her wedding with Simon. The painting doesn’t do her justice, of course not, but it is one of my earlier attempts at portraiture. Still haven’t mastered it, or even apprentice’d it…

Alfred

Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.
July 2005

Water On Mars

Oil on canvas board, 12 x 16″
estimated 2005

One of my earliest attempts, still excited by the novelty of discovering modernism and surrealism and painting and…. a whole new world!

The Sky Above Botswana

Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm
approximately 2005

Still a household favourite after all those years. The birds are “Red Bishop” and the super sky is painted with Cobalt Blue, an expensive pigment but a beautiful blue.

My Guardians

Oil on canvas, 200 x 2200 mm
December 2004

One of my earliest paintings, still found in the stairwell and in lieu of a genuine totem pole.

Myself, At The Sound Barrier
(Hypersonic)

Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 ”
2004

Nautilus

Oil on canvas board,
12 x 16 ”
~ 2004

Definitely one of my earliest attempts at anything in oil paint.

 

Timothy Leary Is Dead
(Hoppe Hoppe Reiter)

Oil on canvas board, 300 x 400 mm

One of my first oil paintings, and still a household favourite 15 years later as I write (and back-date) this note.

This is also known as Hoppe Hoppe Reiter because it was once exhibited as a huge print in the Truman Brewery, east London, as part of an event sponsored by Hewlett Packard. They required that the letters H and P appear in the works title, so we got a little creative with the title.