My many faceted art
How I became an artist - the story
So I hope you’ll understand now why my art is so diverse and that you will like looking around my web site. Please email me and tell me what you think … and if you decided you would like to commission something … that would be wonderful! Another facet: Portraits
Painting portraits is another aspect of my art. This is Drina who tends a marvelous rose garden in New Zealand. I love painting children too. I've done lots of them. Mostly I use pastels, as it did for this painting. Huge paintings - murals and stage sets
This is a bathroom I did for Sally who loves the Greek islands. Painting huge is very refreshing! I use 6 inch brushes and a large container of paint. . Colour has much more impact on me in large scale and my eyes feast on the colour. I sweep the brush across using my whole body. Frequently I climb off the ladder and walk right, right, right away, turn around and see the whole picture from a distance. You can't see it as you paint up close, you just have to imagine the effect.
Summing Up: These are some facets of my art: book illustration, electronic art, portraits, sculpture, murals, bowl painting. Not to mention drawing and painting in traditional media. I hope you enjoy my web site and email me if you have any comments. |
One facet: Book Illustration
This mother forms beautiful sculptural shapes with her children. This is one of my favourite illustrations from the recently published book "Small Steps Forward" text by Sarah Newman. Published by Jessica Kingsley of London. Click here to see more about it. Another Aspect: Electronic art
I love painting on the computer. I did this wedding invitation picture for my son in California. We worked together across the ocean over the net. Isn't modern technology wonderful! Sculpture
Two stone carvings. The"Cry of the Land Spirit"on the left was carved from Omaru stone at the sculpture symposium in Christchurch New Zealand. Right is "Hermes" carved in Purbeck stone. Bowl Painting: An astronaut enters the MIR space station
Notice how the view changes as the bowl is looked at from different angles. I have made and painted 100 bowls this decade. I paint the inside in such a way you may feel a strange 3D sensation and call out "I'm there". This bowl is made of plaster, fibreglass and glue, and has three little feet. My bowls range from 2 inches to 8 ft across. This one is 9 inches across and the paint is acrylic. |
My
earliest memories are mainly tactile and
sensuous like putting my whole face into
a flower,
the colour and the feel of my mother's
tangerine velvet dress. At 3½ I knew that
my mother, obviously the centre of the
universe, could provide all my art material
needs . "Here’s your paintbrush,
you grow your own" she said as she
cut a lock of my hair off and tied it
to a stick with cotton. By four I was
an artist inside. Later, at Art School,
I learned a great lesson: I could teach
myself art! So I taught myself to
paint.
A
lesson my Dad taught me is that if you
stop learning new things it's very hard
to start again, so keep learning new things
all your life. It hardly matters
what. Yesterday I went for my first lesson
in letter cutting in stone. Fabulous!
For me, changing my art medium enhances
my art It is upward spiral. This year:
a stage set, mural (gigantic), a
pastel portrait, electronic book illustration.
This week a commission for a house portrait
and a stone carving.
