Tuesday 1 October 2019

Like many other people, I am quite disgusted with the antics in our parliament.

Like many other people round here, I am disgusted by the sheer hypocrisy of the Remain faction with its complaints about hurty words. They can dish it out, but can they take it?
I get rid of my anger by cartoons.




Wednesday 28 March 2012

I do drawings too

I sit in cafes and draw people. These people were in Australia - Brisvegas to be exact. The aim is to draw people without them knowing that I am drawing them. It is a sort of vaguely sinister occupation, I suppose. So I always make sure that I am not spotted and that I have my nice wife sitting beside me looking seriously bored. I love noticing the difference in the various races in Singapore, Dubai and Saudi (not much opportunity there, I regret.)
Once I am spotted, I stop. Otherwise I annoy people, or, even worse, they pose.
The third drawing is of our very nice local model Hannah who is herself an extremely competent illustrator.



Friday 23 March 2012

My paintings




Here are some of my paintings. They measure about 3 ft square sort of thing. They are painted in acrylic on board. They are trying to breathe some sort of sincerity into modern Catholic Art which, I am sorry to say (I am a Catholic myself) in Anglo-Saxon (but not Hispanic) countries is actually pretty mediocre and samey.
The current Pope hads written an excellent book on the New Testament which has digested all the modernist German theologians in detail. At the end he has come to the conclusion that we can take the New Testament writers pretty literally.
I want to translate this surprisingly fresh fact into the world of painting.



In this painting, the three wise men no longer look at the star. they are too busy debating religion!


As always, people walk away from Jesus.


I was really angry when I painted this totally unreligious picture! Our Free School had just been hijacked by the beastly DfE and this is how I saw bureaucracy. It always gains smiles of recognition from people from eastern Europe in my English classes.........


You must know Caravaggio's painting about the road to Emmaus when Jesus casually lifts his hand to bless the bread, the innkeeper looks on and the man on the right does theatrics with his extended hands.
I thought a lot about that and decided to have a go from the point of view of the Easter!
Daring or foolhardy? 
Both.


Lazarus struggles back to life out of the tomb.

I have always found the Last Discourse in St John's Gospel really boring and difficult to understand. Here Jesus gives the discourse while SS Thomas and Peter look on, one worried and rather withdrawn, the other bursting to interrupt with his own ideas (Seen "Any Questions" recently?) 

What I would love to do really is to let people see these paintings ideally in a setting where they could be used for meditation and perhaps some prayers?
I am not after money so much as usefulness. On the other hand, you have to get them framed and pay the postage!