Orange Mess: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas – 2010 18″ x 22″ – 45mm x 56mm
A few short poems
about birds
from my last poetry collection
Robin
Pecking up the scraps of summer
He comes hopping –
and perching –
in cute poses;
Makes you wish you had a camera, ready.
Pictures of Robins
do well at Christmas.
Jackdaw
Where I live
There are families
of Black Birds
They live on our roofs
and ramble on our lawns
They never stop nodding
and they make you feel
cynical.
Turkey
These are birds too,
even though
they’re cajoled
and crammed
and clipped
and co-erced
until they bleed for us,
at Christmas.
Gull
A varied people
Albatross-sized
or sharp white darts
tipped with black.
They argue a lot,
eat anything you throw at them,
and try to tell us
about the weather.
Duck
They are mostly seen
on man-made ponds,
and amuse us,
occasionally,
with their courting.
You somehow
feel obliged to them
and wish you’d brought
some bread.
This from the thoughts of Brian Llewelyn, formerly The Greatest Living Artist in Wales
Fucking tiny-minded people. If I hadn’t realised this and adjusted the way I engage with the bastards decades ago I would not be the success (that’s debatable I know) I am as an artist now.
The thing is most arbiters of culture are shallow and fake. They use what little knowledge they have to mask the gaping hole of nothingness that is their existence. I know better – I always have. Problem is I’ve allowed the bastards to subjugate me, to judge my work. Other problem is that most of the rest of the population need these hedgehog-brained existentialist angst dodgers to tell them what to think, what to buy, what to sacrifice their pathetic lives to.
Well fuck them – I’m back.
Deceit and Delusion is the follow up novel to Cheats and Liars
There are also several other novels in progress, most notably: Beats, the second in the trilogy of Bums, Beats and Bones and The Flying Boy, kind of meta fiction, told in the second-person present tense – sounds a bit affected but it’s not.
Better get on with it.
Most/All of these paintings are documented in other posts but here’s a little gallery as a quick reference:
Also featured in this Gallery of Recent Paintings
Mosaicness: Acrylic on Canvas. 24″ x 20″
F: Acrylic on Canvas – 80cm x 60cm
High H: Acrylic on Canvas, 24″ x 20″
M: Acrylic on canvas – 80cm x 60cm
Space SOS: Acrylic on canvas – 24″ x 20″
These are probably finished – also added to this gallery
Abstract Landscape #2 – Oil on Canvas 80cm x 60cm – Price: TBA
Bluebell Abstract Landscape #1 – – Oil on Canvas 80cm x 60cm – Price: TBA
The Estuary – Oil on Canvas 80cm x 60cm – Price: TBA
Wavy Abstract – – Oil on Canvas 80cm x 60cm – Price: TBA
(Also added to recent Gallery)
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Three small canvases – Acrylic paint
Work in Progress
1: Go to charity shop, find old picture frames with hardboard backing
2: Remove the hardboard and paint it
3: Allow to dry
4: Reinsert painted hardboard into frame
“Big Stripey” acrylic on hardboard- 66cm x 51cm (26″ x 20″)
“Small Stripey”: Acrylic on hardboard – 33cm x 25cm (13″ X 10″)
Both together
(if still available) – including frames
Small Stripey – £TBA
Big Stripey – £TBA
Excluding post and packing
Use the contact form to start the ball rolling
Some Work in Progress – Early stages (Scroll Down for finished art-icles)
Acrylic on canvas – each 60cm x 50cm
Here
Another two human beings have arrived to keep the first one company
Another Portrait of a Human Being – oils on canvas 50x60cm
And Another Portrait of a Human Being – oils on canvas 50x60cm
They are here to stay
Here
and there of course
Everything is here and there
Now and then
Was.Is.Will be.
Basically
They are flowers
in Spring.
(And here’s the first one to save a click or two)
Portrait of a Human Being – oils on canvas 50x60cm
They are lovely
They are
Lovely
Like me
Like you
You
Utter beauty
Beauty
Beauty
Here they are, I think they’re lovely
Portrait of a human being -May 1st, 2017. Oil on Canvas 50cm x 60cm
They are lovely
They are
Lovely
Like me
Like you
You
Utter beauty
Beauty
Beauty
Tân Gwylllt Ebrill: 80x60cm – oil on canvas
see previous posts for explanation
Self-Portrait electronic file version, original is oil on canvas 20″ x 24″ (Work still in progress)