Promised Land

Here is my Waterloo:

This is one of my most recently painted backcloths. It is a terrifying (well, for one person with limited time) 4m x 2.5m...

                                 ...and it's photo-realistic.

 An early blocked-in photo

 Look at the individual bricks!! Lucky I came up with a cunning device that made them easier...

 The finished piece in my painting tent

 In the theatre... all the brick houses have individual bricks

... and with some acting stuff going on in front of it!

A piece like this can really suck you in - I could easily have spent another week working into it.

The Taming of the Shrew

Marble effects are wonderful fun... lots of splashing and sloshing

Another one by Anna Michaels, painted with Meg Williams.

Painting in a tent...

I recently returned from working in a tent in Germany...

I spent three months there working as a Scenic Artist for White Horse Theatre, and worked on the backdrops and other set elements for eighteen plays. Please brace yourself for the highlights over the next couple of weeks!

These pictures are from the First Wave (as those of us in the know call it), and are of ‘The Weasel in the Sack’, designed by the lovely Anna Michaels.

We had a recurring joke about this backdrop...

Dragon: “Chicken! What is wit that weave on yo head? We are not going to the clubs like that!”

On a serious note, I would like to point out that the chicken is actually a bird of paradise, and that the dragon’s sexual orientation is unknown.

Six months later...

I had such good intentions for this blog.

It was to be an impulsive, expressive gallery of my work as I expelled it: An ephemeral collage of ideas, thoughts and opinions. Sketches, designs, inspirations, automata pieces, and a startlingly lucid article deconstructing the historical and fictional treatment of Anne Boleyn.with regards to the relationships between the eternally analogous twin contexts of witchcraft and feminism.

And then I buggered off.

Oh well, I’m back now – and having scraped my impetus back together, I am ready to share my work with you once more.

Let us go on with the blog!