Paintings and drawings
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 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 am exhibiting some of these through the month of November at the Gallery Grásteinn in Reykjavík. The exhibition runs until Sunday 29th November. This is be my first solo painting exhibition in forty years. Here are a couple of little video clips that give an idea of what the show is like.
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
No title 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: 2012 -13 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