Flogging a Dead Horse
Wrath Oil on Canvas 36″ x 48″ The air has been thick with acrid smoke from the ongoing fires in Holy Jim Canyon these last few days. Which seems entirely apt given the apocalyptic pedigree for this...
View ArticlePastures new
Here I am in my new studio digs, feeling like the cat got the catnip, because it’s indoors, higher ceilings, central air, located in the same building I eat and sleep in. Yes, part of me will miss the...
View ArticleTales from the Darkside
Co-Curated by David Van Gough So how cool is this? Tales from the Darkside-(not to be confused with the old TV series) a single showcase, bringing together-or bridging together to be more precise-the...
View ArticleSeeing the light
Tales from the Darkside at Labodega. October 13 2018. Some said that the grim pall of clouds that had gathered over San Diego, seemed apropos to the theme of the show. But if the summoning of stormy...
View ArticleThe Divine and the Divined
18″x 18″ Oil on panel My own contribution from the recent Tales from the Darkside show at LaBodega. Rather drolly-or should I say troll-y, I got some push back on this when I posted it on social media...
View ArticlePhenomena movie award
This is a project I started last year, but actually has its origins in a piece from over a decade ago. “Gods and Monsters“ from 2005, was I believe my first artistic fumbling’s into arcane territory. I...
View ArticleToil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble
All Hallows upon us again, witches night. There may not be pyres of crowing hags, just the flickering candle light through the drooping hollow of carved pumpkins, but it pales against the incandescent...
View ArticlePAINT IT BLACK
Made the mistake of driving into the city for supplies on Friday. Bumper to bumper sedans and trucks, forging the nation into the biggest parking lot in the world, all willing, seething, commuters...
View ArticleEnjoy the silence
“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one...
View ArticleMood Board
‘And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills?” Jerusalem-William Blake That’s quite a mosaic of madness there,...
View ArticleSugar Buzz
Back after a bout of dreadful lurgy following my holiday sabbatical home. Home by turns wasn’t so sad, but magic, idyllic- all the Raymond Briggsesque, warm family hearth of brewing parochial...
View ArticleChin Wag with Chet Zar
Here’s a real treat. I had the honor of being invited onto the mighty Chet Zar’s, Dark Art Society podcast recently, talking about all manner of things. Influences, origins, art stuff and our shared...
View ArticleWhat’s Past is Prologue
Following on from my recent podcast, I’ve had some requests to see work from my formative years. So, as a blast from the past, and as additional curio’s to my gallery, I’ve uploaded some pieces...
View ArticleTales from the Darkside
Co-Curated by David Van Gough So how cool is this? Tales from the Darkside-(not to be confused with the old TV series) a single showcase, bringing together-or bridging together to be more precise-the...
View ArticlePenultimate Peril
“Richard Nixon Back Again” Billy Joel, We Didn’t Start the Fire. The working title for this one might end up being “The Artifice of Fraud”,”Cognitive Dissidence”, “Origins of a Black Hole” or something...
View ArticleTitle Series
It’s a month away until showtime. Even the icy tundra of the early morning studio, can’t deter me from the last haul, as I defrost, warming my hands by the space heater, or with bottomless mugs of hot...
View ArticleParadiso Poster
Coming soon, to a select gallery in Long Beach…“Following directly on from my previous series (‘Pergatorium’), “Paradiso’s Fall” utilizes elements from Milton’s classic work, and the corruption of Eden...
View ArticleOrigin of Origin
Back to where it all started, the final piece of the series, or ‘The Origins of Life’ to give it, it’s full title. This one goes all the way back to November 2016, which I mothballed when I began...
View ArticlePaleozoic periods
“And my essays lying scattered on the floor Fulfil their needs just by being there” David Bowie-Conversation Piece That’s it, the final flourish-my daubed initials alongside a scuttering trilobite. A...
View ArticleParadiso’s Fall First Trailer
Here’s something really cool-an epic teaser for the main event, something to whet the appetite. Which is why I am delighted and honored by the stellar promotional video, that Dark Art Emporium has put...
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