Spritsail Barge Circum 1940
Pastel on paper original." keep calm and carry on" the poster said and the spritty barges did just that . those that weren't requisitioned by the mod continued to sail, often single-handed carrying cargo around the thames and medway whilst the battle of britain raged overhead. a4 prints printed to order and signed on back available at £6.00 each including postage email pixnwordz@aol.com
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Added on 7th of August 2009
The Mouth Of Hell
Pastel on paper original. the mouth of hell lies off the dorset coast! when the setting sun turns the sea to fire it is all to easy to visualise the devil himself appearing and the division between worlds growing thin especially at sunset. a4 prints produced to order and signed on back available for £6.00ea. email pixnwordz@aol.com
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Added on 7th of August 2009
St Mary's Church
Pastel on paper original. a view of the north side of st, mary's plympton. a4 prints produced to order and individually signed available for £6.00 ea. email pixnwordz@aol.com
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Added on 7th of August 2009
A Haunted Castle
Trinity artwork signed print from original pastel of berry pomeroy castle, devon with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet on "the white lady" one of several ghosts said to haunt the ruins
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Added on 26th of July 2009
A Dream Of Margate
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready to mount. pastel sunset scene of margate harbour and beach with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet of how margate could be. margate was always a special place for me as the location of many happy family day trips, and youth club outings. when i watched "the apprentice" attempt to rebrand the resort, i looked on the web to see what local organisations hoped for. it seemsthat they would like it to be a place for family holidays and a centre for artists similar to st ives cornwall. it's certainly got better communications than st ives and none of the horrendous traffic problem. hence my "dream" of what margartre could be,
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Pylons Marching
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready to mount. pastel sunset view of pylons with superimposed rhymed acrostic poem. i have always been fascinated by the way pylons seem to march across the countryside "holding" the power cables.
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Strange Flowers
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready to mount. pastel with rhymed acrostic poem. a surreal take on windfarms showing them growing like huge flowers. the poem is slightly ambivalent as to the future of these things. are they an intrusion on the countryside or will we become used to them like windmills?.
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On Windmill Hill
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready for mounting. a pastel of willesborough mill with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet which is largely personal nostalgia. as a boy growing up in willesborough, once a village now a suburb of ashford , kent, this windmill was ever present, even football teams and cycle speedway were "willesborough millers" . my cousin scrounged a disused millstone and rolled it somehow across the main a20 to our aunt's house where our uncle set it up as a garden table. i had a close friend who i lost contact with many years ago. who lived with his brothers in a bungalow beside the mill. there were footpaths from the mill across the sandy waste which became the ashford bypass (now part of the m20) where families would go for picnics and every winter (snow permitting) our sledge run was down the side of the hill around a pond (now filled in) and into an orchard (lost to housing). i am pleased to say that willesborough mill which still dominates the landscape (look out for from the m20) has now been fully restored and can be seen working.
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Summer Solstice
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready to mount. pastel sunrise of part of stonehenge at summer solstice with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet on the age and religious significance of the time and place
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There Be Dragons
Trinity artwork hand signed print ready for mounting. a pastel sunset of glastonbury tor with two dragons in flight. the superimposed rhymed acrostic poem refers to the arthurian legends and mysticism associated with the tor
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Pins And Needles
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready for mounting. surreal pastel of needles rocks in solent with pair of nyloned legs (pins) standing on them with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet. a bit of wimsy and a rather bad pun.
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I Will Not Be Dead
Trinity artwork hand signed print on card ready for mounting. (for details of trinity artwork see my profile) pastel of country churchyard with superimposed rhymed acrostic sonnet. there are several well known poems which are regularly read out at funerals and memorials. i wanted to create something to show that people live on in others memories. probably everyone over middle age remembers sayings etc of deceased family members workmates, teachers etc. this was brought home to me when i remembered a work collegue from over forty years ago saying "it's the newness wearing off" and for a moment there he was, a man in his sixties, smiling and driving the hospital minibus. as i feel that this work could be more uplifting to the bereaved than the usual "with deepest sympathy messages", it is also available as a card a5 with inside blank at a cost of £3.50 complete with envelope. in case anyone should want to read the sonnet at a funeral or memorial, i am providing a copy of it here, without the artwork. i will not be dead just gone away whilst any memories of me remain if during some fast frenzied busy day lost moments surface like a sweet refrain laughing silently at things i used to say now someone tells a joke the way i would or when a stranger walks the self-same way that makes you stop and wonder if you should beg them to turn around in case it's me each time somebody reads the words i wrote death ebbs a little whilst their eyes still see each verse, each tale, each gentle loving note although no longer here, i will live on defeating death till all of you are gone.
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Added on 26th of July 2009
