Illustrator
Illustrating and other work
During my career as an artist and illustrator I have been asked - and inspired - to create a number of slightly more unusual images and I’d like to share these with you. I hope you like them and thanks again for taking the time to view my work.
Curiosity 16 x 20 ins. Oil
After seeing the cast-iron, wooden and stone cats in a
junk shop I was inspired to paint this situation with
a real live kitten curiously looking at them.
Fireplace 18 x 32 ins. Oil
A *trompe l’oeil commissioned by a couple who
didn’t like the empty fireplace in their bedroom!
(*from French, literally ‘deception of the eye’).
Proud Parents 8 x 8 ins. Oil
One of a number of paintings I was inspired to paint
after realising that this style of antique white
jugs could take on an almost human appearance!
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I was inspired to draw this after contemplating how Man often makes products with claims that they will last forever...and, as we know, Mother Nature eventually reclaims her borrowed materials. I found these objects, in various states of wear and decay, on the Ayrshire coast and, using a little artistic licence, gave the items, from left to right, the following names: The Durable Drill, The Indestructable Crate and The Everlasting Sole.