"Presence is present, some things just don't go away"Silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont acid steam fix dyes, 45cm x 45cm. Cold, wet, weather day and a Beethoven, Faure, Dylan feeling to it
The darkest winter brings the coldest nights2013
Silk painting on Habotai 8 using Dupont acid dyes, 45cm x 70cm. Gomez in the air.
Stormy is the story push replaySilk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. 45cm x 45 cm. Storms ravage England and England is shocked,climate change coming closeR to home,step by step. Underworld pacing the dye.
'every tiny piece of every single life makes a whole lot of living'Silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix dyes. 90cm x 90cm. More very wet days, seems so much and is actually more than enough for oh so many people. Nasser Shamma fills my head with mellow sounds. The whole picture is actually a little larger than what is shown.
losing our inheritance, ages of knowledge, a planet of life, plundered , our home
2014
Silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. freehand, 90cm x90cm. A truly tiring start to another year, sounded in with classic soul alongside loose folk and a melange of acoustic rock. This is the year when the climate chickens start to roost.
Mutation and adaption, changing to surviveSilk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. 90cm x 90 cm.
Sunshine on a cloudy day, head lost in Janacek (1854 -1928)
A painting which came of a busy day teaching primary aged children about our changing environment. Reminded that this is the only environment they know and that its changing so fast it is literally a living history lesson, day by day.
Creator as createdSilk painting on pure silk Taffeta using Dupont acid dyes. 45cm x 45cm, still stretched on frame. A bank holiday in Sussex with a tuned piano and a touch of Phillip Glass. Some kind of happiness.
If you try sometimes ,you just might findSilk painting on Hbaotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes 45 cm x 45 cm. Painted using droppers and a dried chive. Cold and bright with The Rolling Stones keeping the air moving, winter comes on Wednesday, bring it on.
The more we knew the less we caredSilk painting on pure silk Taffeta using Dupont acid dyes. 45cm x 45cm. Warm in the sun and Daughter on the airwaves.
there's things happening in the earth ,fracking cant be one of them, come on people see the lightSilk painting on Habotai 8 using Dupont acid dyes, 45cm x45cm. White wax and freehand brushstroke. Bright and cold with Broken Social Scene in my ears.
Silksart 5 2014 " climate changing, weather changing, how about we all change too?"Silk painting Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. This is still stretched and as yet unsteamed,
90cm x90cm with rain outside and Pink Floyd -obscured by clouds- stirring the brew, keeping me alive, feeding the frenzy
Silksart -The truth and the unity - final versionFreehand silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont acid dyes. 94 x 64 cm . Painted in London on a grey day. Sigur ros on the air calming and guiding the hand that holds the brush.
Falling away from rather than becoming part of itSilk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix dyes. 45cm x 45cm. Grey January day with wind a plenty and douses of rain to flatten the ground. Ancient woodland on my mind, irreplaceable treasure flutters in the path of developers drawings.
Silksart 48 - 2013 " inside a billion lifeforms moved and reacted.living,dying,copying others and mutating into new forms, in the thick of it all a small voice called out - hold tight to life lest it get lost'
"Delicacy"
"Ghost "
"passing shadows"
"can we see the wood for the trees?"
Silksart hand painted vintage silk blouse 2015
Silksart " he said that water is the key to life"Silk painting on chiffon silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. This is freehand without any resist and involves brushes, pippets and water. The rain fell outside and my ears were filled with Philip Glass, symphony No 3 and Glass reflections.
Hand painted vintage silk blouse 2016
Printemp
Freehand silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont dyes. REM Green on the air as the sun shines. Spring awakens , a little unsure , a little nervous.
La Mer
A silk painting on Habotai silk using Dupont dyes. 1.0 x 1.0 mtr.
painted in the studio in Dufort 81540 in summer 2016
March wakens Freehand silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont steam fix acid dyes. Painted in London as February turns into March. Nirvana and Free in my ears mixed with the odd clap of thunder.
40 x 28 cm.
Durfort 81540Freehand silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Dupont and Knaizeff dyes.
1.0m x1.0m in size. A follow on from the watercolour of yesterday. Painted in the studio listening to Pink Floyd and Gill Scott Heron. Hot outside at 32.
This picture is now in a private collection in New York.
Durfort 81540
"shaped and sorted. categorised yet random, all over the place but pretty much all here" A part of a silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Knaizeff steam fix acid dyes. 1.4 mtrs x 0.40 mtrs. A long picture done in the studio here in Durfort 81540. Working at night when the heat drops and the village is quiet save for the ripple of the river in the street. Sati, Mahler, Beethoven and a lot of Spanish guitar music.
"shaped and sorted. categorised yet random, all over the place but pretty much all here" A part of a silk painting on Habotai 8 silk using Knaizeff steam fix acid dyes. 1.4 mtrs x 0.40 mtrs. A long picture done in the studio here in Durfort 81540. Working at night when the heat drops and the village is quiet save for the ripple of the river in the street. Sati, Mahler, Beethoven and a lot of Spanish guitar music.
"shaped and sorted. categorized yet random, all over the place but pretty much all here" 
"shaped and sorted. categorized yet random, all over the place but pretty much all here" 
"Durfort 81540"
"Durfort 81540"
Hand painted Silksart vintage blouse rear detail 2017
Organic onions and a raspberry 2015Silk painting on Habotai 8 silk. With an acidity of 5.00-6.00 ph Onions work well with acid dyes on silk. The potential problem is that the silk is weakened by the acids if left to long.
The red colour here is a raspberry and even the texture has been left on the silk. overall the silk stood for two days before organic material was removed.
Birthday present. Hand painted Silk blouse using Dupont dyes 2021
'Sea levels out where it will " 2021Silk painting on Habotai 8 silk.
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