Aleister (Prima) Crowley & the artists indomitable spirit
8″ x 11″ oil on canvas So the great beast himself, knocked out so to speak- Alla Prima- in a few hours . Not that I’m an acolyte you understand. Even Bowie stated something along the lines that one...
View ArticleThe death of Manson
You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy. Charles Manson “Something Witchy” (2012) Oil on canvas, 11″ x 14″ So Charlie-the self proclaimed “God of Fuck”-has...
View ArticleAldous Huxley
“…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Another painted sketch, flexing the painted portrait muscles, while I...
View ArticleA little light egg and skull brunch
” I have of late—wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth” Hamlet-Will Shakespeare Oil on canvas study 9″x 12″ And so, here we are then, at the turgid fag end of my 50th year. A lamentable passage of...
View ArticleEnd of days arts sale
Tough times call for tough measures, so I’m wielding a cutthroat razor and slashing hundreds and thousands of dollars in prices on originals. Go check out my store and pick up something blacker than...
View ArticleA little souvenir of a terrible year
I know, it’s a cheerless title from a dismal song , but its been churning around in my muddy head for the past few days like a mantra. Here we are at the denouement then, 2017 as a summary in paint,...
View ArticleRogues Gallery Featured artist for January
“In the studio he wields his brush over the fibers of his canvas with the precision and authority of a magistrate’s gavel… Weaving tapestries of man’s wonderment at the terror he poses to the world...
View ArticleParadiso’s Fall
Though it may seem a little premature, best laid plans being what they are, I thought I would let you all know where a majority of my focus is going to be for the next fourteen months. Following on...
View ArticleTending the garden
This is me, applying the final flourishes to a piece that may turn out to be called “Infernal Pitts shall never hold celestial spirits in bondage”, which of course is a couplet from Paradise Lost, but...
View ArticleBugging out
Been locked in the studio for a full six days solid on this one. Do you know in that entire time, this singular, milky, bugs-eye hasn’t turned it’s withering gaze from me once. It makes me think of the...
View ArticleLimited Edition of This thing of Darkness
11″ x 14″ Archival ink of velvet paper signed, dated and numbered I know its been a long time in coming, but here it is. This Thing of Darkness Ltd Ed Print Way back when I did Purgatorium, I set the...
View ArticleClimbing trees.
This was a week ago, so I’m further along. Detailing, nitpicking, slowly losing my mind seeing the wood for all the trees, or at least its many branches. I never imagined that the landscape would be...
View ArticleSplendor Solis
A reproduction of my piece “Space enough have I, to lie in such a prison” was recently included at ‘The Studio and Gallery’ exhibit ‘Splendor Solis, which is based on an alchemist grimoire of the same...
View ArticleRasputin
Oil on canvas, 9″x 12″ With Russia in the news again, I thought it’d be quite nice to trot out one of the Slavs other infamous sons- the Mad Monk, Grigori Rasputin-Alla Prima. He’s another of those...
View ArticleDali
Oil on canvas 9″ x 12″ Between prepping the canvas and sketching for the next piece, I knocked out another Alla Prima portrait in a couple of hours today. Dali -in my opinion the greatest artist of the...
View ArticleDeath Rattle
“We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.” Ovid “The gormless and the baying crowd right there. They can’t get enough...
View ArticleMother Deer.
You can’t really tell yet, but that’s Elen I’m painting, the lost pagan horned goddess of British folklore. She’s Mama deer, spiritual consort, Shamanic pathfinder of ley lines and a divine fertility...
View ArticleSD Voyager Interview
“I guess my journey as an artist began with this overarching spiritual quest and being raised as I was, I’d found that the pulpit wasn’t doing it for me.” In which I talk about my Liverpool origins,...
View ArticleTales from the dead zone
It’s been several months since I last wrote, I know, but if posts have been thin on the ground of late, it’s because I’ve been pouring myself into the work at hand. That, plus its all too easy to feel...
View ArticlePurgatorium LTD Editions
Hard to believe that Purgatorium will be five years old next year. I guess it makes some sort of sense given all that’s passed in between. The La Bodega years and preparation for Paradiso’s Fall- the...
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