painting straight from imagination, sparked by flicker of tree shadow on canvas
kuja
kuja was a buddhist monk in 13th century Japan who chanted Namu across the land as antitode to princes and leaders building temples and copying sutras. He carried a gong.
Our garden
Kya the Dog often lords it over the garden. This is kinda her view, although it is believed that dogs only see in black and white. A watercolour with pencil overlay.
not the last judgement
acrylics picture
vinegar tasters
Confucius, Buddha and Lao Zi taste the vinegar
MY KITCHEN MURAL : CAFE BY ITALIAN LAKE
This was great fun to do, using the whole kitchen wall when we had our kitchen modernised. It is loosely based on a photo of a tapestry I found. The paint is acrylic with emulsion left over from the other walls. It was then varnished. It took about 2 weeks. including a day off work.
METZ CATHEDRAL WINDOW
Chagall
cosmic dunes
This is an acrylic painting I did using a roller
BIG BUDDHA PROFILE
the fourth stage of Mindfulness of Breathing - awareness of single pointedness of breath
Bathroom Tile Mural: Hokusai Wave/The swimmer.
Tesselation of tiles. Designed on board and then erected.
RED SPHINX
Odilon Redon - amazing turn of 20th century colourist
starry night
one of van gogh's star paintings
Log
This is a watercolour of a log by Nacton Shore which interested me. The photo has come out a bit dark on the web - the painting is brighter than this
Jacob's Bedroom mural: Warhammer
Acrylic mural (drumset in new view!).
PLANT AT KEN'S HOUSE
Ken and Julian always got up late when we met up so I drew this to pass the time
lounge picture
This is acrylic picture is by Graham and Di Cleaver
The Scream
Edvard Munch's painting has always been important to me since we wrote an essay about it at school. I was devastated when it was stolen once
INDIAN FEATHER
An early painting - the feather was on an indian headress I wore as a kid (always dressing up)