TRANSPORTATIONS

THE BUS PAINTINGS WERE INSPIRED BY THE DEMISE OF THE ROUTEMASTER BUS IN 2006. AS A MUCH LOVED LONDON ICON THE ROUTEMASTER WAS THE PEOPLES BUS AND EACH ROUTE HOLDS A SPECIAL CONNECTION TO THE EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE PUBLIC WHO TRAVELLED ON THE BUS. BEING BORN IN LONDON I HAVE SET OUT TO CELEBRATE THROUGH PAINT, A KIND OF PERSONAL HOMAGE TO THE SYMBOLISM THE ROUTEMASTER HAS WITHIN MY OWN METAPHYSICAL JOURNEY AND CHART THOSE OF OTHERS WHO SHARE SIMILAR FEELINGS TOWARDS THE TIME TRAVEL BUS JOURNEYS SEEM TO EMBODY. THE PICTURES ARE BUS PORTRAITS, IN THIS RESPECT, FOR ME THE NUMBER 73 AND 19 ARE SIGNIFICANT. A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR HAS ALSO BEEN BBC RADIO LONDON'S (94.9FM) ROBERT ELMS SHOW, WHICH HAS OFFERED AN INVALUABLE IMAGINATIVE STIMULUS THROUGH THE ANECDOTES REVEALED BY THE LISTENERS OF LONDON.

ROUTEMASTER BUS 73

OIL ON CANVAS - 5FT X 3FT

NEW YORK BUS M15

OIL ON CANVAS - 3FT X 5FT

'ODE TO E72 ST (VARIATION)

OIL ON CANVAS - 4FT X 3FT

PRICE ON REQUEST

MAIN STREET - WALL STREET (BAILOUT) 2008/9

ACRYLIC ON BOARD - DYPTICH

5'.5 FT X 2.5 FT EACH PANEL

(THIS PAINTING WAS CONCEIVED AND REALISED IN NEW YORK CITY DURING THE WINTER OF 2008-9. IT IS A RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC

CRISIS, TRIGGERED BY THE WALL STREET COLLAPSE AND BAILOUT THAT DEFINED THE PERIOD. AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BBC'S CHIEF ECOMOMIC

EDITOR EVAN DAVIES HOST OF THE DRAGON'S DEN, ON WALL STREET AND THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE,

AT THE TIME OF RESEARCHING SOURCES FOR THE PICTURE, LED TO AN INCLUSION

OF HIS SYMBOLIC PRESENCE AS PART OF THE GRAPHOLOGY, THAT DEFINES THE PERSONALISED PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY OF THE PAINTING.

DURING THIS PERIOD OF ECONOMIC TURMOIL COINCIDING WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS OF OBAMA AND MCAIN, THE USE OF TERMS SUCH AS

MAIN STREET AND WALL STREET, FORMED THE IMPETUS TO CREATE A DYPTICH.NONETHELESS THE SIGNS AND BIRDS ALLUDE TO A POSITIVE

FUTURE, AS THE PAINTING WAS FINISHED WHEN OBAMA BECAME THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA)

                                                                                                     EUROSTAR (THROB) - OIL ON CANVAS - 24" X 42" INCHES                                                                                                                                                       

OLYMPIC ROUTEMASTER BUS 15

OIL ON CANVAS - 30" X 40" INCHES

1500.00 GBP

LONDON BLACK CABS

OIL ON CANVAS - 24" X 30" INCHES

700.00 GBP EACH

                             ROUTEMASTER 19 (DAY)                                                                                                             RMS 19 (NIGHT)                                             

                                                OIL ON CANVAS - 30" X 20" INCHES                                                                       OIL ON CANVAS - 30" X 20" INCHES                                                                         SOLD                                                                                                  700.00 GBP                                              

'DANSK CHIC CPH"

OIL ON CANVAS - 36" X 30" INCHES

PRICE ON REQUEST

3 GRACES CPH

OIL ON CANVAS - 36" X 48" INCHES

(AVAILABLE)

ROUTEMASTER 73

MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER - 30" X 20" INCHES IN IVORY MOUNT

400.00 GBP