Winter Wood

Original painting on easel.

Closeup of painting.

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Original painting is 30x40cm (11x16") acrylic on canvas with wire crochet trees.

The print is available in various sizes, as poster, greeting cards, framed, mounted and canvas prints.

Print of painting availabel on Redbubble and DeviantArt.

Stop the Clocks

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Image created for the 1/52 project (20/52) from my own photographs.

This is about the Victorian tradtion of covering mirrors and stopping clocks with a death in the house. I presume the latter was to establish and record time of death, the former, covering the mirrors, is supposed to prevent the departing soul from becoming trapped in the mirror. There is a similar tradition in Jewish religion, however in this case it is to remind us that we are more than our physical bodies and to leave vanity behind and remember our souls.

Words are from my poem Night Songs:

"gone from sight
but not from mind
like a prisoner
forgotten
rotting
in a damp cell"

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Cambridge Triptychs

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All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

A juxtaposition of grungy urban texture and the lovely countryside. There’s a town and gown thing going on between the university of Cambridge and the town itself.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

I have a thing about textures and how some textures seem to have symbolic meanings, almost like a secret language. When you walk on the edge there’s no knowing what you may find…

The first one is a pathway through the park. The path on one side, the grass just on the edge of the other side.

The bottom left picture is of broken glass by the side of a pub.

The final image is a broken sticker on a lamp post. The part of the sticker torn off had the shape of a wolf, which I found amusing because the sticker was about dogs (or rather their leftovers….) :-)

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

Another juxtaposition of urban grunge to lovely countryside. This time it was more about colour and texture.

The top image is of the Cambridge countryside which is extraordinarily pretty in the sunshine.

The other two images are textures I found on a wooden wall built around a building site.

Currently there’s a huge building boom going on in Cambridge and a lot of the pretty countryside is vanishing.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

These were chance shots. The first is a house number on a fence. I am never sure if 66 is a lucky number or the devil’s number….?

The other two shots are from a building site again. I thought they worked with the luck. Sometimes luck is not enough and you need to follow the rules to be safe. :-)

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