Cow one Christ 2018 Assemblage 26cm x 6cm SOLD Somehow making work for the Cabinet exhibition at Daisy Laing’s gallery in Penzance allowed ‘Cow one Christ’ to come together. Finding a cabinet and an orange wall at the gallery focused the elements, which I had been living with for a while, of this assemblage in …
She dreams mostly in animal 2018 Assemblage, mixed media 24cm x 12cm Initially the plastic doll was a place to put unmixed oil paint at the end of a painting session. Then she became a new piece of work in her own right. Later acquiring a once grand ornate Chinese glove box as a home …
Golden Panda 2018 Assemblage 12cm x 6cm SOLD This assemblage was the product of a long process of finding the various objects and trying multiple ways of joining them together. The key idea was the hollowing out and gilding of the found wooden block. The weather beaten driftwood appeared on Mounts Bay Beach after a …
Handy horse 2018 Assemblage 7cm x 6cm A visit to an art gallery in Spain yielded the small plastic hand, a rare new purchase and not easy for me to make with regards to the environment, however it made this piece come together when I discovered the fit was perfect with the plastic horse. I …
Tiger in lead coat 2018 Assemblage, mixed media 6cm x 10cm SOLD Tiger in lead coat was the product of a long process, the 30s tiger came from a charity shop and the lead from a field near Penzance. It , as it were, fell together when I dropped the lead onto the floor and …
Polar bear 2017 Assemblage, mixed media 15cm x 15cm A quick creative process lead to this piece, the circuit board the bear walks on was found at the beach, the wood from outside someone’s house in Penzance, and the bear from Ebay. It is obvious to say that we could not have a more poignant …
Mangabay 2016 Charcoal on found wood 46cm x 65cm Unframed The mangabay image is from a favourite childrens animal annual of mine called ‘Introducing Animals’ from the 50s. the pictures are all made in a zoo, and I think the monkey, natural to the Congo, looks a bit board, hand on his knee, legs stretched …
Javan tiger extinct 2017 coloured pencil on paper 21cm x 29cm Made during a residency on Fowey moor at Warleggan, using found imagery from a 60s wildlife annual, red seemed an appropriate colour as these animals habitat is destroyed for profit. In some areas there is hope that we will slow or perhaps halt the …
Drawing 1 2015 Oil on board(?) 45cm x 65cm Made from a self portrait and a found image of a primate. Copying the monkey’s pose I wanted to put myself literally alongside her, and it felt uneasy. Making larger scale charcoal drawings on found wood has become an important part of my process. I enjoy …
Don’t look at me 2 2017 Metal plate etching 20cm x 20cm This drawing was scratched into a metal plate that was previously used by another artist to make an etching. I could not see properly what I was producing so the result has a strange slightly cumbersome look, which I liked. The title came …
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