A vase of flowers handpicked from the Garden Pentaptych.
… Flowers from the Garden
Category: Painting
Garden Pentaptych
Formerly the 1.7x5m painting which provided the background for the photographic portraits of academicians made during the Court Painter Residency at the Royal West of England Academy of Art.
… Garden Pentaptych
Water Ain’t Blue, But It Wants To (Tagged)
A painting about migration, ‘tagging’, eyes in portraits that follow you and birds following magnetic fields.
… Water Ain’t Blue, But It Wants To (Tagged)
Shield
Medieval style shield featuring a lion, red flower, lemon tree and a fox.
… Shield
Movie Tabloid Collages
A collage series that elevates the ‘researcher’ to occupy the same level of visual space as the ‘celebrity’.
… Movie Tabloid Collages
Land of Plenty
Reappropriated ‘Fromaiges et Vignobles’ (Cheeses & Wines) antique-style Daniel-Louis Derveaux map of France (1963) showing the wine regions and important cheese-makers of France. Oil, house paint and wine on map.
… Land of Plenty
Levade
Mixed media painting comprising of materials salvaged from around Bristol Temple Meads.
… Levade
King Tino
Reworked King of Hearts playing card.
… King Tino
Court Painter Residency
A series of large-format photographic portraits made during a week-long residency at the Royal West of England Academy or Art.
… Court Painter Residency
Figure of Love & Hate
Derived from the ‘figure of eight’ or ‘infinity symbol’ but with hearts.
… Figure of Love & Hate
Skis
A painting of an equation. Skis x S x Mountain.
… Skis
Fashion Week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, where designers, brands or ‘houses’ display their latest collections in runway shows to buyers and the media.
… Fashion Week
Jim Reeves Shrine Frame
Jim Reeves was an American country and pop music singer-songwriter.
… Jim Reeves Shrine Frame
Laugh or Cry
Both a love letter and a “Fuck you!” to painting.
… Laugh or Cry
30 Years War
Paint on digital print [from scan]; derived from portraits of leaders in the Thirty Years War found defaced with biro in a copy of The Early Modern World by C.F. Strong (1955).
… 30 Years War
Van Hunks Deck
Hand painted Gordon and Smith FibreFlex pintail skateboard deck.
… Van Hunks Deck
Bunch of Ruined Brushes
A collection of unwashed brushes rendered unusable, bound together with string on canvas to form a bundle or bouquet (depending on orientation) – after Bunch of Asparagus (1880) by Édouard Manet.
… Bunch of Ruined Brushes
Coat of Arms
A simplified and reworked Mitchell family coat of arms. Acrylic, oil and eye shadow on potato sack in dipped frame.
… Coat of Arms
Mountain Vigil
A painting that combines two stories; the legend of Van Hunks in Cape Town and the legacy of Black Mountain College, North Carolina.
… Mountain Vigil