A nod to Beryl Cook's work and a comment on the relationship between two couples known to the artist.

Riant: The dictionary says - smiling, cheerful (of face, eyes etc., & especially of landscape).

This complex canvas, contains landscape, still-life, portraiture and reclining nude encrypted across the length of the picture.

Within it is a fusion of the representational and the abstract.

Note the Buck-Toothed viaduct.

Available as a Giclee Print.

A conversation with a friend about the diamond trade inspired this one. With its protagonists doing the hear no, see no, speak no evil thing.

Work in progress.

Every Christmas season, the Jazz Train complete with passengers and musicians, sets out from Plymouth Station along the Tamar Valley Line.

It Wends And It Winds It Ambles As It Climbs And It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing.

Influences - Giles, Origami.

The old man passes a Lady of the Night. A cat stands on the wall, and a knowing neighbour looks on.