Sep 042022
 
Four Characters in Wood and Verse

These four little woodcarvings are abstract renditions of four animals – Owl, Swan, Elephant and Dragon. They are each up to  9.5cm high and 10cm wide, made of two types of wood, one of which is the contrasting dark wooden plinth. I don’t have exact information about when these were made, but see there are read more…

Mar 052020
 
Painting at Poetry Book Launch

The atmospheric International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester was the setting for the first public showing of a work of art by  Graham Kingsley Brown since his passing in 2011. The painting “The Departure” was framed and displayed to accompany the launch of the poetry book “Nothing serious, nothing dangerous” (which features the painting on read more…

Nov 282019
 
"The Departure" - Book cover image for Fokkina McDonnell

Just as words need to be read or heard to carry meaning from one mind to another, so too do paintings need to be seen by another to come alive. The Artist’s act of creation is one of expressing from within, in order to have reflected back something that is, in some senses,  beyond oneself. read more…