| My (Steve) paintings are a mixed bag, with some themes. Some are are just places and weather, but usually developed from sketches and memories. Some are what Ruth calls social realism, that are made up from memories and bits of photos to evoke events, people, a time, even place. Others represent what is evoked by a book, as in the gandalf paintings that I started doing for people, on their student room windows, in the the early 1970’s. Some are to get people to think about things that might otherwise be ignored, such as the trees in big houses and gardens. There are examples here of sketches, acrylic works, e-pictures, murals and combinations of those. During 2020 I made a work that was a collage of mini versions of parts of the view from our bedroom during Lockdown. I then did some others of the same view based on the Lockdown experience, put into the view. I often paint best when someone says something like ‘I like washing on the line’ and I commemerate that. Some of the photos are not very good because they are old and I don’t have access to the paintings to redo them. |
- Sculpture and Roses
Between Ruth and I we’ve accidentally ended up with a theme.
Elephant in Roses 
Garden Spirit in Roses 
Owl in Roses 
Toad in Roses
