Veronese's Dog ©
Oil on board
50 cm high x 50 cm wide
"There were three cloaked figures in this image, and then late into the night I painted them out, introducing a tattooed ass (!), a firework tree, and an urn.
Blatantly, I outlined the leaning hound from the foreground in Veronese’s 'The Wedding at Cana'.
This yoking together of incongruous parts and the stark palette make for an unusual image."
The Blueberry Horse ©
Oil and oil pastel on fine paper
38 cm high x 38 cm wide
"I was taken by the blueberry bloom of the background trees and built the palette around those.
This horse bolts freely from everything I know about horse anatomy in a bid for free expression."
Fire Horse ©
Oil and oil pastel on fine paper
38 cm high x 38 cm wide
"The exaggerated, tangled legginess of this lime-white horse makes it all the more vulnerable in the clutches of the Harpy."
Wassilly Hare ©
Oil and oil pastel on fine paper
38 cm high x 38 cm wide
"Silly and Wassily, both. The early Kandinsky influence is all too present in the landscape, and admitedly, there's also something of Chagall there..."
The Pistachio Horse ©
Oil and oil pastel on fine paper
35 cm high x 46 cm wide
A white witch built of triangles and squares spooks a horse. Again, using the visual language of Russia and the folkloric theme.
The Fish Eye Horse ©
Oil and oil pastel on fine paper
36 cm high x 47.5 cm wide
The fish eye is both a hieroglyph and the Greek Ichthus, echoed in the eye of the watching harpy-crow which is looming ominously in the raining flame tree on the mount.
On the horizon, the curvature of the earth is lit by an atomic sunset.