Code-switchin’
A personal portfolio of paintings, illustrations, texts and photographs.
These pages are an attempt to curate my personal, creative work. Done over the course of the years they are, by nature, inconsistent and diverse in style and content. Some were created yesterday and some a while ago.
All images are copyright.
“There is the silence of noon on the Place du Gouvernement. In the shade of the trees surrounding it, Arabs sell for five sous glasses of iced lemonade flavored with orange-flowers. Their cry “Cool, cool” can be heard across the empty square. After their cry silence again falls under the burning sun: in the vendor’s jug the ice moves and I can hear its tinkle.”
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Summer in Algiers)
Based on postcard image The Cathedral and Governor’s Palace, Algiers. Inks, gouache and acrylic paint on watercolour paper mounted on cardboard, 60 x 40 cm. Below, gouache, pencil and watercolour of same sized at 14 x 9 cm; felt tip pen on photocopy.
Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II
Habitat dhurrie rug
Pastel on Fabriano Artistico watercolour paper, 15 x 11 cm. Variations below: Dhurrie Scribble and Dhurrie with Licorice Allsorts.
Trees and Landscapes
Trees
Acrylic on canvas board, 13 x 18 cm.
Landscape
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. Preliminary sketches are shown below.
Ayrshire Landscape, acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 ins.
Ayrshire Landscape, acrylic on canvas board 10 x 12 ins.
Ayrshire Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 cm.
Swaledale, acrylic on canvas board 30 x 25 cm.
Port Logan, acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 cm
The more abstract the less landscape (and vice versa)
More trees
Faces
“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing.
JJ: Infer a Punny infer a Pound,
Acrylic on cardboard 5 x 7.
Rocks and Islands
Variations on a theme of sea, land and sky mostly in acrylic on canvas with the odd oil colour and inks.
People
