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My inspiration

This website is a platform to communicate my work with you - if you are

interested in purchasing an original please contact me. Prices are from £100 for an original pen and ink drawing to £5000 for other work.

I have 4 aspects to my work - landscapes and still lives of Italy, Spain, France and the U.K. Secondly, individual people or in locations like theatres and processions. The third are spiritual or religious art, and

others are imagined, frivolous or satirical. The Images of War are the most serious and some are hard for the viewer to look at.

The greatest influence on my work is that of other artists. For 40 years I’ve been looking at art from before Ancient Greece to modern times. I admire more artists than I can list, but here are a few - Veronese, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Poussin, Titian, Manet, Monet, Goya, Giotto, Carravaggio, Artemisia Gentilleschi, Chardin, Vermeer, Cezanne, Renoir, Blake, Toulouse Lautrec - all leave me in awe of what they have achieved.

The early high Renaissance in Italy, which inspired the creative arts

all over the world would probably be my most favourite. Viewed with fascination and curiosity, these complex narratives, with their

detailed interplay of the human figure with mythology, history, religion, astrology, are always easily understood.

In my own way I seek to make them relevant to the present by connecting them to the modern world’s contemporary society. In a relatively simple process I have photocopies of images from art history books and catalogues, cut out from adverts, magazines and newspapers - of dancers, acrobats, actors, musicians, fashion, plants, animals, fish,

insects and birds.

Additionally, I use the prints of Vesalius, the 16C anatomist Blossfeldt, the 20C photographer of plants, to create a light-hearted yet serious narrative open to individual interpretation.

In 2018 I opened a catalogue to a page of frescoes in a church, painted by Raphael Michalengelo’s assistant, Sebastiano del Piombo - and saw that the arched structures could be a framework into which I could put both the old and modern images.