Mixed Media Gallery

“It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.“

David Henry Thoreau

Vision and Verse

Wharfedale 1 | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2022

Snow and frost, fog, mizzle or mist
Backlit in sun’s iridescence
All familiar features missed
But what is left is the essence

Wharfedale 7 | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2025

Curves as gentle as the moors
Lime and gritstone craft the haws
Hewn and hued in russet, mauve and sage
Leached and bleached to Winter’s beige

Bamburgh Beach | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2025

Rothko in seams – sand sea and sky
Canvass so wide, so infinitely high
Where sea meets air, I love to stand and stare
To stand and stare – and glare where sea meets air

Embsay Crag 2 | Mixed Media | 195 x 95cm | Private Collection

Gaum Valley Quadriptych | Mixed Media | 244 x 90cm | 1991

Torso

“The limbs of trees branch out like arms and legs from the trunk of a figure.”

Henry Moore

Ivy

Trees

Hawthorne 1 | Mixed Media | 74 x 54 cm | 2022

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Sycamore 2 | Mixed Media | 84 x 64 cm | 2021

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Rocks

Adam and Eve

after Masacio’s ‘Adam and Eve Expelled from the Garden of Eden’ 15th Century

89 x 38cm | 2015

During a woodland walk, in a flash, I saw standing before me Adam and Eve – shortly before they were expelled from the Garden of Eden. The serpent was there, as was the Tree of Good and Evil, the Tree of Calvary and the Tree of Life. The ivy, like evil, entwined the couple as they in turn clung to the tree.

The relationship of English Ivy (Hedera helix) to our trees has similarities to the behaviour of evil toward human beings. Its habit is to attach itself to anything that stands, with the help of suction-like roots called ‘hold fasts’. Although it does not kill the tree, it competes for nutrients, water and sunlight, and so may weaken the tree making it more prone to disease and branch dieback.