Art work

	Well, sort of art work.  It’s what I did for diversion in the 80’s before iPods, mobile phones and laptops arrived (except for the last picture). I did the first two “Elf landscapes” below left and centre with coloured pencil on black paper sometime in 1985, around 3′ x 4′. Now reminds me of art work for the cover of a “DiscWorld” novel.  The “Elf shipwreck” started as a leaf doodle.
The pastel portrait in the centre below is of Anna Kavanagh, who shared basement space at Studio Place in Knightsbridge when I lived there sometime in the early 1980’s.  Along with all the other sketches on this page, they were found heaped on the floor in a cupboard, and have lost some of their pigment. The picture on the right is of a model employed by Georgiou, a Greek photographer I helped setting up fashion photoshoots.
The picture with a figure rising from the waves was used as a sketch for a version done on board. The centre picture developed from a leaf doodle, one of my diversions at that time. The right-hand picture was drawn directly onto a B&W photocopy of the original, which I gifted to Isabel Langtry, then sculptor in residence at Central YMCA.  There wasn’t really enough tooth on the paper to take pastel properly for my copy.  It is a kind of fanciful pot, since Isabel was then teaching pottery (along with other things).
The centre picture below is a montage made from photographs of figures in the Foro Mussolini (now Foro Italico; historical revisionism is a very human activity), sometimes regarded as a Fascist masterpiece (with classical leanings).
The three pictures below are sketches I made of Stephen, my partner since 1983, in the first months we met. They’re a bit of a mess, having been reworked once or twice; the one with the eagle badge actually started off as a sketch of the eagle.
The picture on the left is loosely based on sketches I did at London Zoo (I wouldn’t be surprised if I couldn’t afford to go there anymore – in the 1990’s, a season ticket was available). And in the centre is a picture of my brother’s cottage in Llanberis, sketched while he was building a much more elaborate one nearby. The last picture is digital art – recursion was one of my hobbies as a programmer.