The handcrafts of Painting and Drawing are our traditional media in the visual arts and it is this dexterity that most attracts my attempts to locate Nature's mysteries.

Even that my earliest artistic instruction was with cameras and darkroom procedures I often toiled with pencil, pen or brush, loving line and juxtaposed forms that worked together to depict what my eyes were drawn to. And it was just such an incident, of being attracted to a motif in nature, that put me on a course to hone my abilities and lead me down a path of painting (the story can be found in my first book: The Prologue).

And just like I came to enjoy the kitchen-work of a darkroom by tutelage, so to it was for painting, when a senior took me under his wing and tutored me in the art of making artist paints (those stories are scattered through several volumes).

With the ability to arrange my own palettes of paint and ink, I have been able to explore the vastness of traditional disciplines over the years and below I have arranged a carousel including painting, drawing and printmaking from a variety of techniques, styles and concerns that have interested my investigations - the books of course explore much more, including the 'implications' that potentially arrive in creative image making.

Note: Some images in the carousel below are only details of the image.