Tag: cancer

  • Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

    Maybe too the use of dark colour, deep violet and grey through to black also reflects what I characterise as a Durer figure of death sitting on my shoulder. However, my belief in art sustains me and I have started working on the next paintings.

  • Going through a Purple patch

    My art is intended to reflect a view of reality, but the writing extends this through process outside the studio, sharing my visual world through

  • Escaping the Tunnel

    Escaping the Tunnel

    I have agonised over whether to write this piece, but after the interest that the previous piece on cancer has generated, and the continuing interest in my 2013 piece on beating type 2 diabetes, I thought I should share my experience

  • Cancer and Honeysuckle

    The success rate for this Cancer treatment is a staggering 80%, good news for me. It was during one of these bouts of post treatment weakness that I sat in the sun amongst the honeysuckle in the back garden, giving rise to this latest painting.

  • It’s all a Performance

    It’s all a Performance

    Art is a language and all language is about communication. It takes a transmitter and a receiver, and all art need s an audience as without an audience it is like a proverbial tree falling in a forest… so the website is my new stage on which my performances in the studio can be critically…

  • A Reaffirmation of Life

    A Reaffirmation of Life

    About exhibiting: Having work framed up to present formally to an audience can be intimidating (as well as expensive) but is an essential part of the creative process. After all unseen work is like the proverbial falling tree in the forest – if no one sees it does it happen? The purpose of art as…