Gallery E – New Mixed Media Page 3 
Acrylic Ink, Acrylic Paint, Inktense Pencils, Neocolour pastels, Drawing Pens, Art Markers, etc. All advertised as lightfast and permanent. The originals are framed with mounts of various matching shades of greys, blues, purples and greens, with narrow outer frames in gold, black or neutral.
These mixed media are available as original paintings mounted and framed (prices from £125 to £175) from Windswept, St Just; The Picture Parlour, Boscastle; Know Thyself, Falmouth; The Lamorna Pottery Gallery, Lamorna; A Long Sea Breeze, Mullion Harbour, or direct from the artist, please enquire by email. Or, available as un-mounted prints, A4 size only. Printed with small off-white border to allow for mounting and framing.
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21. Winter Evening – Pink Clouds
Original Available – Enquire
Available as 2 sizes of
Fine Art print un-mounted
A4 un -mounted £14 plus P&P = £18.50
A3 Signed Limited Edition un – mounted £30 plus P&P = £36.50
22. Willows and Cow Parsley
Original Available – Enquire
Available as 2 sizes of
Fine Art print un-mounted
A4 un -mounted £14 plus P&P = £18.50
A3 Signed Limited Edition un – mounted £30 plus P&P = £36.50
23. View to the Sea by Evening Moonlight
Original Available – Enquire
Available as 2 sizes of
Fine Art print un-mounted
A4 un -mounted £14 plus P&P = £18.50
A3 Signed Limited Edition un – mounted £30 plus P&P = £36.50
Page 3
All my paintings for the last twenty years have been in oil paint, and have been built up in layers with intense amounts of detail. They have therefore all taken a very long time, sometimes up to 1,000 hours for the largest size paintings. Although I do love doing the paintings, I have frequently had a secret yearning to do something more splashy and immediate, less detailed and organised, and also more playful and quicker. About five years ago I started buying occasional mixed media sets – lovely glowing acrylic inks, intense inktense pencils, glittery gold and silver metallic paints, rows upon rows of exciting colours of neocolour water soluable sticks, pastel sticks, wax pastels, and boxes of markers – all sitting and waiting for me to have time to play.
In September 2017 I had two brain aneurisms and after two sets of brain surgery and nearly three months in hospital and many more months at home, I finally got back to work. But I couldn’t face starting something that would take months, I needed something that was fun, and so I decided to play with the mixed media for a while first. In order to feel suitably liberated, I told myself that I was just having fun for my own sake and that these were not for sale and that no-one would ever need to see them.
With that freedom I started playing, floating blocks of colour onto the page, blowing lines of ink to make trees, splattering colour with a flicked brush and using diverse things like feathers, twigs and toothbrushes for marks, pushing colour around with a water spray, building up layers and then finally making choices of definition with pencils and markers.
Co-incidentally, at a time when I had a large batch of these done and spread around the studio, I had several sets of visitors who spotted them and told me I should sell them. One person commented that they were like Arthur Rackham meets Lord of The Rings, but set in Cornwall, and I was rather pleased with that! So, these are the result. I did enjoy doing these immensely, and I hope it shows in the finished paintings.