Paintings and drawings
From 1967 to 1972, I spent 5 years studying visual arts at arts schools in England. Ever since leaving art school, I have always worked with visual arts alongside music. For many years I worked as a community artist and played an active role in developing the UK's community arts movement. Among a whole range of projects, I worked on large scale murals, both painted and mosaic, made photographic exhibitions developed and used portable photo-silkscreen equipment with a big variety of community groups, and I also worked in multi-disciplinary teams with drama workers, dancers, story tellers, textile artists and so on.
Solo art exhibition in Reykjavík
Since moving to Iceland in 2004, I have been working on domestic scale paintings and drawings and I held my first solo exhibition in over forty years through the month of November 2020 at the Gallery Grásteinn in Reykjavík. Here are a couple of little video clips that give an idea of what the show was like.
I am now working hard on a new series of paintings on irregular shaped grounds. They will be exhibited through November 2021 at the gallery of Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM) the Society of Icelandic Artists.
Here is a selection of work from the past few years.
Title: Recycled echo Date: May 2020 Dimensions: 95 cm x 61cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Title: Twisted plane Date: July 2020
Dimensions: This painting is not rectangular all sides are of different length Top 79 cm x right 60.5 cm x bottom 82.5 cm x left 63.5 cm
Materials: Acrylic on calico covered 18mm plywood
Title: Parallel views Date: August 2020
Dimensions: This painting is not rectangular all sides are of different length Top 82 cm x right 52 cm x bottom 82 cm x left 55.5 cm
Materials: Acrylic on calico covered 18mm plywood
Title: Dream memory Date: 2019 Dimensions: 94cm x 61cm Materials: Acrylic and crayon on 4mm MDF
Title: Look again Date: August 2019 Dimensions: 61cm x 75cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Title: Carbon hand print Date: July 2019 Dimensions: 61cm x 94cm Materials: Acrylic and graphite on 4mm MDF
Title: Hidden in plane view Date: July 2019 Dimensions: 71cm x 61cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Green flight Date: 2018 Dimensions: 65cm x 61cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Title: Winter wait Date: May 2019 Dimensions: 61cm x 75cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Title: Golden rotation Date: 2018 Dimensions: 94cm x 61cm Materials: Acrylic on 4mm MDF
Works on paper
Three graphic works from the Calendar series. Date 2012 -13 Dimensions 50cm x 50cm Materials: pencil, graphite and charcoal on black paper
Two graphic works from the Torf series. Date: 2014 Dimensions 50cm x 50cm Materials: pencil, graphite and charcoal on black paper
Two drawings from the Interference series: Date: 2015 Dimensions: 40cm x 40cm and 40cm x 50cm Materials: pen on tracing paper
Graphic work from the Hólar series Date: 2016 Dimensions: 50cm x 40cm Materials: crayon on black paper