El Taller

A bit of a long painful labour of love, this. Someone sent me the photo and I was immediately taken with it and I spent over two months to get it all down on board. I'm very pleased with the result.

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Washing Machine

Whilst I'm very pleased with the results, I found this a complicated project that took an awful lot of time – so I shall think twice before embarking on something similar! However, it was nice to have an excuse to nose around other peoples gardens.

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One Green Bottle

I love doors, being the gateway between inside and out in the world and this island isn't short of doors of character. Who knows the stories they conceal? This door satisfied all my artistic impulses with the light, texture and colour. I'm very pleased with the result.

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View From Peter's Roof

I've droned on about it before but I love where I live! This is one of the views from my friend Peter's roof and I got lost in the layers of detail descending to the foreground. All those lives and all that D.I.Y. Yeah, it's nice here!

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Early December near Felanitx

I haven't painted for quite a while and the weather has been unusually grotty – cold, dull, and wet. So it was good to stand in the warm sunshine one morning, looking at our local mountain with everything pin - sharp and still. I really got my teeth into this as it's a composition I've been itching to do for months.

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¡ohhh!

As my wife will attest, I frequently experience vivid dreams and consequently I'm often drawn to painting in a more surrealist manner. (There's more than a touch of surrealism in all my work) In this piece I explored the idea of three viewpoints from three internal spaces and as usual it did nothing at all for my mental state but was bloody good to illustrate.

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Eight Signs Of Life

See blog for description

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The Morning After The Night Before

I’m quite sure that this view is commonly encountered up and down the island when the eyelids are first cracked open in the morning. Wine, tapas and endless conversation about nothing in particular that involves the opening of 'just one more' bottle. In the sun. I love Mallorca.

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All Things Must Pass

More gallery flowers. These white roses were well past their best but I find just as much beauty in these crinkly dried – out specimens. Not so much dying as elegantly wasted.

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Mind Where You Step (Sant Elm)

I was quite taken with this rickety structure leading down to the sea – A slipway for the boats pulled up on the rocky foreshore a few miles from Andratx. The limestone was full of ankle-twisting holes and edges that were a pleasure to paint and I'm pleased with the cool,calm water.

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Beware of the Dog

Lovely angled light, the patina of old walls, plenty of signs of life but no people and just a friendly neighbourhood warning.

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Still Life

Ooh, another dark, dusty, barn! I like all the signs of age on what is presumably a cherished servant. I’m sure it still runs but I exaggerated the distorted lines and the cobwebs and thought the sun shining on the headlamps made it look as if it was running. Random thoughts came into my head about elephants and mice – the agricultural behemoth and a tiny symbol of nature.

…… It’s a wood mouse, incidentally.

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Barn Find

I’m drawn to dusty, abandoned, silent places where any od junk could be a treasure. This old cart didn’t quite fit in to the building so I got to play with a bit of perspective.

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Just Another Ordinary Day.

There is a point halfway through the morning when the sum begins to pick out small sections of the view from our roof garden.

Of course, the sunlight changes everything – the roofs, the colours of the washing, the depth of blue of the sky. So suddenly it’s not an ordinary day at all.

I love the combinations here of the humdrum and the aircraft con trails making a line for distant lands.

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Portrait of a Tree II (Trees at war)

This excitingly twisted form looks nice and stark against the Mallorquian blue sky.

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Rooftops at Arta

What a stunning view from the castellations above this wonderful town. Plus those sneaky peeks into courtyards and windows....

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At Santanyi

I encountered these doors in a side street of this lovely town and was struck by the angled light picking out the age and patina of the wood.

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No 9

More angled light - this time in Felantix. It does seem to pick out all the scars in the wood that have accumulated over the years.

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Return to Cala Bota

Well I return there all the time so it's bound to feature in quite a few of my paintings.

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Felanitx series - Felantix

A set of four A3 posters in the Felanitx series, each from original paintings.
Each poster is priced at € 20 or all four for € 60

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Felanitx series - Mercat

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Felanitx series - No. 5

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Felanitx series - San Salvador

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