Minotaur;

Lost Territory 2

Lost Territory 1

Here Be Dragons:

36 x 32", acrylic on canvas;

Strange Waters;

36 x 35", acrylic on canvas;

Sea Ghost;

9" by 7.5", acrylic on canvas

Dance;

4" by 4", acrylic on canvas

In The Trees;

4" by 4" acrylic on canvas

A Living Tomb;

9" by 7.5", acrylic and collage on canvas

Uncanny tales;

9" by 7.5", acrylic and collage on canvas

Babel:

32" by 27.5" acrylic on canvas

Rapture 3;

Acrylic on canvas, 24x24"

Rapture 2;

Acrylic on canvas, 24x24"

Rapture 1;

Acrylic on canvas, 24x24"

Stone Ghost;

Acrylic and ink on canvas, 24x12"

Freedom Not Fear;

An image I provided for NO2ID and the Open Rights Group. They wanted an image which summed up the surveillance culture which has become so predominant in the UK's political landscape. The image was then mosaiced using photos of 'surveillance state ephemera' (which were taken by concerned citizens and uploaded into Flickr). This was then assembled as a giant protest picture in Parliament Square.

Poverty;

An image I provided for a friend's blog as part of Blog Action Day - http://betweenbeings.blogspot.com/

Underwater Acoustic;

Acrylic on canvas, 16" by 12"

Colours of Noise;

Acrylic on canvas, 24" by 24"

Kirby;

Acrylic on canvas, 40" by 32"

Canyon;

Acrylic on canvas

Symmetry Breaking;

Acrylic on canvas

Static;

Acrylic on canvas

Uriel;

Acrylic on paper, 14"x10"

Seraph;

Acrylic on paper, 14"x10"

The March;

Family;

Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

Flood;

Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 32" (lousy photo, must buy new camera...)

An actual Painting...

...as opposed to all that photoshop malarkey (which is all well and good, but doesn't leave you much in the way of a physical object which you could, say, sell - therefore actual paintings are the plan for this year). This is called The March and is 40 by 32 inches, acrylic on canvas.

December:

Soundtrack; 'The Pirate's Gospel' by Alela Diane (names) & "Nuage' by Sylvain Chaveau (Type Recordings)

November;

Soundtrack; 'Ghosts of the Great Highway' by Sun Kil Moon (Caldo Verde), 'The Flying Club Cup' by Beirut (4AD) & 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead

Arbor Vitae;

October;

Soundtrack; "Fur and Gold" by Bat for Lashes

Look Away;

September;

August;

Soundtrack; 'Person Pitch' by Panda Bear (C&P Paw Tracks)

Waiting;

Picnic;

We Could Write a Novel, a Joke, Ha Ha Ha;

July;

Soundtrack; Rain and rain and rain and rain and oh dear we done broke the planet -

Lonely Metal Souls;

Soundtrack; various Amusement Parks on Fire B-sides & 'Quicksand Memory EP' by Ulrich Schnauss (independiente music ventures)

June;

Soundtrack; 'Mirrored' by Battles (Warp Records) & 'Neon Bible' by Arcade Fire (Merge Records)
(Image features sampled artwork by the godlike genius, Steve Ditko)

May;

Soundtrack; 'Homesongs' by Adem, (Domino Recording Co Ltd) & 'Drums and Guns' by Low (Sub Pop)

Junior Panthers

Some bits and pieces for a friend's band...




(This last one contains a detail from 'The Village Wedding', painted by Sir Samual Luke Fildes in 1883)

April;

4th Month in my increasingly impractical calendar - soundtrack; 'All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone' by Explosions in the Sky (Bella Union), 'pssscheeow' by Sol Seppy (Gronland) & 'Friend Opportunity' by Deerhoof (ATP Recordings)

Haruki Murakami; after the quake

I'm a huge Haruki Murakami fan and am re-reading 'after the quake', a collection of short stories inspired by the Kobe earthquake that struck Japan in 1995. The seismic top half of this piece was created from a drawing my brother, Stuart, did -

Heads;

Soundtrack; 'Songs III: Bird on the Water' by Marissa Nadler (Peacefrog Holdings Ltd)

Sorry;

Soundtrack; 'The Bells of 1 2' by Sol Seppy (Gronland Records) & 'Neon Bible' by Arcade Fire (Merge Records)

March;

Soundtrack; 'The Lyre of Orpheus' by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Mute), 'The Absent & the Distant' by Corrina Repp (Caldo Verde) & 'Be Still' by Adrian Klumpes (Leaf)