Lethe

There has been a lot of personal work on my blog of late so here's a commissioned illustration, a book cover for Lethe press. Actually there is lots of commissioned work going on but it is all rather secret so I can't post it just yet.

Bye for now x

About Time

The passing of time (and all of its hideous crimes?) is a regular undercurrent in my personal work, literally in a recent piece if you look closely. it is a strange substance that flows faster the more it goes by, seems more finite the more you notice it.

42! where did all that time go? I preferred those figures vice versa but still, with age comes wisdom and I have attained a certain dignified maturity, erm? No ... no I haven't ; )

Bye for now x

So far ...

Well, here's the series so far. Ego, Flood, Stretch, Jam. There is another in progress 'Slurry' and then I think I am going to leave this lot for a while. I only write occasionally so generating the texts that these accompany is slow, besides I have a few other things I want to give some attention to, the afore mentioned photographic pieces and also I have been thinking about getting back so some very early ideas to do with landscape and geometry and how I might bring some of my landscapes together with my painting and drawing. Quite besides the commissioned illustration work! so little time.

Bye for now x

stretch

Latest in the series of images inspired by my writing. This one is accompanied by a very short musing I penned last year. Probably around this time last year, I can see a lake and three ponds from my studio window. Spring is a beautiful time, an eruption of life but there is also so much death.

'I hope your few days stretched out like sunny months to you'

was the line of text that resulted in this image. 

The egg like shape which fits neatly into the birth / life / death cycle was actually accidental in that I have had a nice oval antique wooden frame knocking around the studio which I wanted to use.


60 x 50 cm

19.7 x 23.6"

Bye for now x

Jam

I recently finished this piece which accompanies a piece of flash fiction I wrote a while back entitled Jam.

Mixed media.

11.7 x 14.9 "

More soon! bye for now x

@DarrenHopes

I have joined the flock of twitterers

https://twitter.com/darrenhopes

If my waffle here leaves you wanting then you can read more there!

Bye for now x

New Scientist - The Self

New Year, new job for New Scientist.

Not satisfied with making me question the nature of reality the guys at New Scientist are now asking does 'the Self' really exist as we think it does? lovely, I probably am not what I think I am in a universe that probably does not exist in the way I think it does, a universe that, I might tell you, could pop out of existence in favour of another one so I read.

I have done myself no favours by recently reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Before I had a massive identity crisis I managed to create three illustrations for the magazine so here they are.

Right! I'm off to put my cat in a box.

Bye for now x