As you’ll have recognized from many of my paintings, I have a particular passion for water. If I'd been born in the Victorian era, I probably would have been labeled a Psychrolute - Groups such as the Etonians, arists and poets inlcuding Lord Byron and Shelley swam almost as a ritual wherever they traveled. They believed that swimming itself was a transcendent experience and that cold water, especially, had restorative qualities - I’ve been indulging that inclination, unknowingly, most of my life and would certainly have to agree. Inclusive of the images on this first page I’ve been experimenting, generally, with different ways of looking at potential subjects. Most have of these images, or groupings of pictures, have a slightly modernist feeling. In them I’ve tried to reflect different design characteristics of this many-faceted movement. So, just for fun, some holiday snaps with a difference: |
