Recent Work:
`AL ANDALUS`
This series of paintings are a personal response to the Alhambra Palace in Andalucia, Spain.
What interests me is the idea of the Palace being a representation of `Paradise`, an earthly `Garden of Eden`. I have taken realistic elements of the Palace and imposed on them
some imaginary and symbolic content. It was my intention that the paintings have a dreamlike `unearthly` quality. The many fountains of the Alhambra have been transformed in the paintings into a vessel that represents and honours the feminine, so often denied an equal place in the culture. The painting `Submerged` is inspired by an outdoor theatre in the Generalife Gardens
Colour is important in my paintings; I build successive layers of transparent glazes of oil paint and glazing medium, which results in paintings with more depth and vibrancy of colour. The layering process only ends when I feel the painting has achieved a certain `resonance` that brings it to life.
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`AL ANDALUS`
This series of paintings are a personal response to the Alhambra Palace in Andalucia, Spain.
What interests me is the idea of the Palace being a representation of `Paradise`, an earthly `Garden of Eden`. I have taken realistic elements of the Palace and imposed on them
some imaginary and symbolic content. It was my intention that the paintings have a dreamlike `unearthly` quality. The many fountains of the Alhambra have been transformed in the paintings into a vessel that represents and honours the feminine, so often denied an equal place in the culture. The painting `Submerged` is inspired by an outdoor theatre in the Generalife Gardens
Colour is important in my paintings; I build successive layers of transparent glazes of oil paint and glazing medium, which results in paintings with more depth and vibrancy of colour. The layering process only ends when I feel the painting has achieved a certain `resonance` that brings it to life.
Please Click on each image for full size view.
