PageScape I Escape

PageScape I Escape
8.25x5" Prisma Colour pencils on hardcover novel

The wind blows, and everything changes. I can hear the birds, but their shapes merge with the shifting landscape. Even the trees are trying to be something else. It makes me feel restless, exhilarated. I escape into a little drawing, that belongs only to this moment. No rules, no plan...

Pagescapes

Vision 11

Vision 11
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

Are we not enlightened particles
Obedient to the force that draws the circle?

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Vision 10

Vision 10
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

We look inward,
and find understanding

We reflect,
and stretch out our hand

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Vision 9

Vision 9
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

The mirror shows us something
That is more than this world

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Vision 8

Vision 8
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

And however darkness overcomes us
We cannot fall below the wings of Light

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A388 Token IV (fish & raven)

A388 Token IV (fish & raven)
12x12" acrylic & prisma colours on stretched canvas
private collection

The idea for the token sequence of little paintings began with a casual challenge from my mother. We were looking at her sketchbooks, in particular the pages of medallion-shaped designs, which she originally intended for pottery. I said that I thought they would make wonderful paintings. 'Show me how you would put a round design on a square canvas,' my mother said. I made a quick sketch similar to one of her designs, and liked it so much that I
decided to paint it.

Anomaly Series
The raven is one of my familiar old creatures, and the fish is one of my mother's favourite motifs.

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Vision 7

Vision 7
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

Take thought, and think again
For our next act is our future.

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Vision 6

Vision 6
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

Let us empty the chaos of our souls
And be filled again with Light

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Vision 5

Vision 5
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

Nature:

Yet we cannot fully know ourselves or the Design,
Only that it is our Alpha and Omega

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Growth 16

Growth 16
9x6" oil on PC Paintbrush IV manual

Impending. Most of the time I avoid thinking about it, but from time to time, my upcoming cancer test results blanket my brain in a white fog. Pending. Coming soon. I scribble in the fog, over and over. Every time I sketch and scribble in my painted books, I find myself laughing over something...fat birds and rubbery characters, or strange, unintentional shapes. Here, my little worries become a Marie Antoinette hairdo, a Cool Whip turban. Just a momentary lather. Or another kind of Growth.

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