Graphite powder on pages of Darwin's Origin of Species 85x60cms, framed The book pages will darken with time as they are exposed to light. UK shipping is £70. Please get in touch for international shipping rates.
Cutting out pieces of paper from among other sources the dried palettes I use for my abstract paintings, I am creating a new body of highly coloured work: Hares, Birds, Cows Wolves so far. 56x76cm Unframed
It's been fascinating to work on this series of Collage Hares, giving me so much freedom to choose the colours and make the printed paper to use for the cutouts. It's very painstaking work carefully retaining the anatomical structure while going all out with exuberant colours. Hare 6 Collage on paper 46x61cm Framed
Collage on paper 90x70cms, paper size Another member of the beguiling Corvid family, and, like the crows and ravens, also known for its intelligence and problem-solving abilities. Collage seems to give them the extra heft they deserve: this one is made from hand cut paper pieces in all the blues and blacks and greys that make up the feather colours.
Crows are everywhere, crows are scavengers, crows are intelligent, crows are tricksters. Who has not been entertained by hilarious Crow antics? Where there are scraps, there are crows. Re-reading Darwin's Origin of Species, I was struck by how dismayed he would be at the loss of so many species. This bird - made as it is of many different types of feathers and on a background of pages from Darwin's book - reminds me of all…
