Following on from Lichtenstein’s tradition, I’ve used hard flat, vivid colour and hand painted Benday dots. Strong black outlines support simplified shapes in true Pop Art tradition. Humour is created in the profile and features of the goldfish smiling while a sense of time is introduced by a fallen flower petal. 90cm x 90cm x … Read more
There is excitement building in the town of Walsall in the West Midlands. Their football team is due to play in the EFL League Two Division Play-Off against Wimbledon FC on Bank Holiday Monday May 26th. Walsall FC has experienced a season of two halves. In the time leading up to Christmas the team played … Read more
This is a large triptych measuring 92cm x 286 cm. I admired the work of Spanish artist Monika Buch. The bright Mediterranean colours of Spain influenced her style as an artist. I created my piece of work on three 92 cm square canvasses, having been inspired by Buch’s awareness of optical differentiation where the eye … Read more
One of my earliest and largest postage stamp portraits was of the great war time leader Winston Churchill. On the band around his hat I pictured words from his famous quote; ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few‘. He was paying tribute to the enormous … Read more
Iris shades her delicate features from the sun with an umbrella. She walks through a country garden surrounded by cornflowers, lilies, alliums, and agapanthus and of course irises. I created this image from over 2000 used postage stamps containing the no longer available portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II. I enhanced the image with … Read more
Today we celebrate St George’s Day and the birth of William Shakespeare.
This is an example of a vivid imagination running away with me using the iconic ‘picture’ of Lara Croft wielding a gun against the explosive colours and forms of Lichtenstein’s ‘Wham’. Here, the radiating shapes dance in the background against Lara’s still, yet dominant, threatening pose. The picture is composed of approximately 3,000 used postage … Read more