Birds
I taught drawing and painting at HMP Edinburgh 2001 - 2007. there was already a tradition of copying past masters from photographs so in my lunch breaks I would copy paintings so that I would be able to give demonstrations to students on how to tackle Modern classics. The seagull had featured in earlier work as a way of unblocking and morphed into this blob which permeates the work through the years. The shape has taken the form of a helmet in more recent work but I can always return to the bird. everybody knows the bird is the word.
BIg Banana feet acrylic on paper 2019
A Clockwork Orange, acrylic on paper 2019
two birds and telephone exchange box on rug. card design 2017
Pool birds, acrylic on paper 2015
Swell, acrylic on paper 2015
San fotocopia, copper plate etching 2009
Boids, design for screen print 2009
bird self, copper plate etching 2007
Low birds, Acrylic on paper, 2007
Pals for life, Acrylic on paper, 2007
Inatt, copper plate etching 2007
Boids, copper plate etching, 2007
metronomer boner, Acrylic on paper, 2007
Card birds, copper plate etching, 2007
BIrdie hoose acrylic and collage on paper, 2006
Fabricus, Acrylic on paper, 2005
Harlequin, Acrylic on paper, 2005
bird cake, Acrylic on paper, 2005
After the flood, acrylic on paper 2005
Bird song of Love, Acrylic on paper, 2005
cockatoo, acrylic and ink on paper, 2005
In the land of the cockatoo, acrylic on paper 2005
'There is one law', Acrylic on paper, 2005
'COCKATOO',Acrylic on paper, 2005
'It may not mean that much to you', Acrylic on paper, 2005
'But you're not in with them like I am', Acrylic on paper, 2005
'Giraffe, Giraffe, you're havin a laugh, your neck is so long it looks like a graph', Acrylic on paper, 2005
Giorgio, Graphite on paper, 2005
untitled, acrylic. and pastel on paper 2003
Washing line, oil on board 2002
duel, oil on canvas 2001
the rumble, oil on canvas 2001
wrestlers moll, oil on canvas 2002
The conspirators, oil on canvas 2001
Hyams league, oil on canvas 2002
Red left hand, acrylic and ink on paper 2000
The rumble
The wrestlers, oil on canvas 2001
I dreamt of Alan Johnston, oil on canvas 2000
red left hand hood, acrylic and ink on paper 1999
'better put your house up for sale the indians are coming' oil on canvas 1999