Tag: photos

Branches and Sun reflected in a bin full of rainwater

cropped

Original Photo

It’s a collage

It’s a collage, that’s what it is, it’s a coll-fucking-age

Art Exhibition – Llanover Hall and Behind the Tele

Here’s a photo of my painting Autumn Show, on the wall in Llanover Hall, Cardiff for their 50th anniversary exhibition .

Available to purchase at the special price of £450 until July 26th 2019

Autumn Show – 2016 – acrylic on canvas – 1200mm x 1000mm

and here’s a very different painting on the same size canvas – who is it hiding behind the tele?

Namaste – 2018 – acrylic on canvas – 1200mm x 1000mm

Busted – New Novel almost here

EDIT: It’s here and will be launched Mon June 3rd – Details here

I’m very happy to say that my next novel will be published by the end of May.

The manuscript is in the final stages of proofreading. Here’s the completed front cover

Busted Bumf

It’s the early 1990’s in the large town of Elchurch on the South Wales coast. Family man Dylan D’arcy, a struggling businessman, is on the verge of going bust – again. Out of the blue, successful local entrepreneur Kevin Brown walks into his office and offers him a lifeline in the form of a lucrative contract to develop a computer system for his new venture, an ambitious mail-order operation.

Everything falls into place and within weeks Dylan and his family are reaping the rewards and looking forward to a prosperous future. At the same time there is an upsurge in drugs-related crime in the town and the antics of local underworld figure Arthur Roberts cast a dark shadow over Dylan and his family business.

Busted is the latest in a series of Elchurch Tales by Derec Jones.

Check out the author’s website for more information: www.derecjones.com

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Me and some of my mates

Me and some of my mates


	


	





	

		
		
Okey Dokey
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
Don’t ask . . . . . .


Here’s some sort-of abstract works instead



	


	





	

		
		
perplexion of the unfinished mind et al
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
4 fresh oils on canvas 60cm x 50cm -Framed


Spring 2018


£250 each Contact me for availability


Tân Gwyllt I: AKA Perplexion of the unfinished mind


Tân Gwyllt II


Tân Gwyllt III


Tân Gwyllt IV

	


	





	

		
		
Lord Harry for the ZX Spectrum
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
One from the archives – a game I wrote for the Spectrum in 1983


Might do a T Shirt or a painting or both based on this





	


	





	

		
		
Happy World Toilet Day 2017
	


	
	
	

		
	

		


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Make the connection
	


	
	
	

		
	

		

	


	





	

		
		
more selfies
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
see previous posts for explanation


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potpotmush
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
An accidental recipe


cut potatoes and sweet potatoes into chip shapes and deep fry in plenty of oil until soft but not crisp – add some half chopped chestnut mushrooms


wait until it’s obvious that the ‘chips’ are not going to get crusty but are in imminent danger of collapsing into mush


scoop the potpotmush into a frying pan and shallow fry to attempt to make at least some of it crispy


Bloody gorgeous it is and goes well with vegan burgers and green salad



	


	





	

		
		
Do you notice anything here?
	


	
	
	

		
	

		

	


	





	

		
		
Tarmac sandwich
	


	
	
	

		
	

		

	


	





	

		
		
Self-Portrait – Work in Progress
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
Oil on canvas – then photographed and edited in Gimp


Self-Portrait electronic file version, original is oil on canvas 20″ x 24″


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Blog abstract number 3
	


	
	
	

		
	

		

	


	





	

		
		
How much fruit and veg is ‘ten a day’
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
New research has indicated that people should eat 10 portions of fruit and/or vegetables every day if they want to achieve a longer and healthier life.


I wondered what 10 portions would look like so I raided the fridge and fruit bowl and added fruit and veg until it weighed 800 grams, which, according the the NHS, is what 10 portions weigh at 80 grams each.


Prices are based on the costs of the fruit and veg from local supermarkets and greengrocers’ shops, not the cheapest places to buy, not the most expensive either.


Bon Appétit!

	


	





	

		
		
Half-eaten fruit and an angle on urinals in an arts’ centre
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
The day before yesterday was half-eaten fruit day


Half an Apple wrapped in clingfilm, on a wall in Library Street near the arts’ centre


It’s bananas – it really is


Half a banana over a wall in the gardens at Chapter Arts Centre


It wasn’t me guv – honest


A row of urinals in the toilet at Chapter


Definitely not!


Close up of a single urinal at Chapter

	


	





	

		
		
Happy Birthday to Me
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
Something I wrote on my birthday


Happy Birthday To Me


It’s a scratch on the wall

a step on the path

It’s my birthday again

another year’s passed


If years were seconds

there wouldn’t be many

not much more than a minute

	


	





	

		
		
Reality is the Biggest Myth
	


	
	
	

		
	

		
An extract from my book To Me


I’m told I ate the dog’s biscuits and drank a lot of water. I dunked my blond locks in a bucket of lime and nearly died of pneumonia at a few weeks old. The pneumonia and the bucket of lime are unconnected, at least in the normal linear way we deal with time.


The truth is that after nearly sixty years of being me, (and being me involves a lot of thinking about these things) I still know nothing about myself. I am here – that’s all I know. I accept that here may not be ‘real’. I accept that reality is the biggest myth.


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 REALITY IS THE BIGGEST MYTH


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“We are all in touch with everything at all times. There is no separation in reality. This life is an illusion created by a random collection of sub-atomic particles and no doubt sub-sub atomic particles. Because we are conscious we have to make sense of it so we make up stories.”


I’m sure the story of me will all come out in some way or other at some time or other. Here on the road this is a signpost or a post or just a sign. So the point is that if I was to represent the sun with a full stop . like that, then there are stars out there that are the size of this page – this room even, and we all know that the earth is tiny compared to the sun and we are tiny compared to the earth and if I could look into my fingernail or any other material thing I would see that it is composed of sub-atomic particles which really don’t exist and I can write my own story but even then you could say it is already written because there once was nothing then there was some sort of bang or expansion that emanated from some point in the middle of that nothing, nowhere, and the force that propelled that and created those stars the size of a hundred million Earths also created me and I am just a consciousness on some sort of trajectory through time and space and all I’m really doing is observing as I zoom past and I don’t have any choices except perhaps which dot to focus on.


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