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Suspendu en Bleu has a deep fuchsia pink background, over which yellow and olive green pool and spread. Finally, a ship-like shape grid in blue is held, suspended by thin strands of paint from the top of the paper. Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, 50 x 50cm
Suspendu en Bleu, 2024, Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, 50 x 50cm
The bluebells are out and it's magic is a painting that celebrates the bluebells. A background of a bright violet blue is covered with organic grids in dark blue, violet, brown and grey. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm
The bluebells are out and it's magic, 2015, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm
Lunaire, 2024, Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, 50 x 50cm
Parcourir le Labyrinthe de Chartres is a series of 28 painted and screen-printed 50cm circles displayed vertically in four lines of 7 circles. The circles are painted red or blue and each has with an incandescent white mark upon it.
Parcourir le Labyrinthe de Chartres, 2017, Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, 28 x 30cm circles, 2.5m x 1.8m
Nocturne is a 4-panel screen painted pink, over which on both sides is a half moon at the top left of 3 panels. One side has a cold, silvery moon, with the forest, dark and menacing in deep blue and red lines with a silvery luminescence. The other, a warm golden moon, with the forest, light and comforting in less dense and paler blue and red lines, with a golden luminescence. Acrylic on canvas (screen), 162 x 150cm
Nocturne - Side 1, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas (Screen), 162 x 150 cm
Réunion - La traversée du vide imagines a circular blue void around which on 3 sides and over a fiery red flows, with a peach and pale green globular form above. Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 101cm
Réunion - La traversée du vide, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 101cm
Skylark imagines the earth and sky that this wonderful blue-grey-buff-brown bird inhabits, using various blues for the sky and browns, greys and buffs for the earth. Its beautiful song is represented by gold flowing down from sky to earth. Acrylic on canvas, 112 x 183cm.
Skylark, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 112 x 183cm
Expand, 2024, Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, 50 x 50cm
A painting on both sides of the glass in a porthole. Swirls of blue, green and orange. Response to a quote from Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out: 'nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for'
"Nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for" Virginia Woolf in 'The Voyage Out', 2012, Oil on porthole, 66cm diameter
Resistance comprises many shades of blue and turquoise plus gold, floating, merging and mixing on a bronze background. Acrylic on Moulin de Larroque handmade paper, 84 x 84cm
Resistance, 2021, Acrylic on Handmade Paper, 84 x 84cm
The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away 2 is an intense painting with a multitude of colours splashed onto the unprimed canvas surface, where they merge and blend. A centripetal image, it collapses within itself at the centre point. The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away 2, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 183 x 112cm.
The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away ll, 2019, Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 183 x 112cm
The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away 1 contains numerous splashes of yellows, oranges, blues, greens and reds, many of which overlap to create a rich variety of colours, with the whole image centrifugal and pushing outwards. The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away, acrylic on unprimed canvas, 183 x 112cm
The Day the Sky Shattered and Flew Away, 2019, Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 183 x 112cm

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