Contemporary Art
Gallery 2


Tread Softly With Me
Oil on canvas
94cm x 191cm
Tread Softly With Me - This painting is one of a series of works, which begins to make a statement about the insidious destruction of our beautiful woodlands and forests. The erosion in many cases may appear to be happening slowly, but in many parts of the world the trees are being cleared, not a few at a time, but whole forests felled in a matter of days. Why are we throwing away our life support? Doesn’t anyone care?Tread Softly - The title of the work is inspired by the poem, 'He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven' by W.B.Yeats, particularly the last two lines. It is one of my favourite poems and in relation to these paintings, I bring my own interpretation.
Legacy (Triptych)
Oil on canvas
100cm x 250

Legacy (Triptych) - These panels endeavour to make a statement about the/my carbon footprint. They depict my concern about the indiscriminate felling of trees, the destruction of the forests and the ultimate damage caused to the environment worldwide. We need paper, we need books, but do we need so much and so many? Millions of books are printed every year and hundreds of thousands are sold, however, many, many thousands remain unsold and are returned to the publishers for pulping. A large percentage of books will never be read. Of course paper is just a minuscule part of the problem, but a part nevertheless. The trees, the forests, are our life support, what are we doing abusing them in this way?