dfs Paintings and Prints
Some latest work examples...
Soraya Blue, 2024, oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Conil beach I, 2023, oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm
Pink rose, 2023. oil on canvas 40 x 33 cm
By the pilar IV, 2023. oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm
Soraya dances, 2022. oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm
Alcazaba of the Alhambra III (south view), 2023, oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm
This the third in a series of pictures of the Alcazaba of the Alhambra.
Carmen pond (Carmen de los Mártires), 2022, oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm
A rose in Andalucia, 2022, oil on canvas 55 x 38 com
Cool patio (Andalucia), 2022, oil on canvas 50 x 54 cm
Here I've sought to capture the atmosphere of a cool Andalucian patio in summer with subtle blue and grey-green tones. The chair is empty; someone is taking a siesta.
Over the fields to Bosham harbour (West Sussex), 2022. oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm
The carmen pond, 2022, watercolour on paper, 35 x 25 cm
Alcazaba of the Alhambra II (south view), 2022, oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm
The style of image I've gone for in this picture is bold and simple. The Alcazaba is a strong permanent structure planted majestically on the hill that looks down upon Granada.
Our Lady of Granada, 2021, oil on canvas 81 x 60 cm
Alcazaba of the Alhambra I (north view), 2021, oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm
In this picture I experimented by doing an underpainting with oil pastel. This has achieved a nice texture , most apparent in the clouds of the sky.
A la Mucha, 2022, oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm
Thespian melancholy, 2021, oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm
It is mid-morning of a weekday in a Soho drinking club. The man, an actor, is looking reflectively away to his right. The actor's dream of fame and professional fulfilment is one of the hardest to attain. The light that barely touches him represents the success that fleetingly touched him and then has eluded him, as do the papers that sit on his lap that are the golden script that never was. The picture represents unfulfilled ambition and aspiration, and the fear that they may never be achieved.
Here we can see a young lady Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, future Queen of Mercia, modestly contemplating the path of life before her. Light and shade feature in the picture, both symbolising events to come.
This picture shows a woman dressed in a typical Spanish Catholic headress (mantilla), as worn by women in Easter processions in Andalucia. The picture is punctuated with white spots of blank canvas. It is saying that we all start as blank canvases but, to degrees, are conditioned by our early environment, both passively and not so passively. Religion is used here to represent all the "conditioning devices/environments". This particular person has been brought up as a devout Catholic in Andalucia. She cannot escape that; it is an inevitable part of her. She looks out simply from the picture and asks you, the viewer, "What has conditioned you?
The picture reference here is my four-year-old son. What's the boy thinking? Watching? as he sits on a rug in the shade of a pine tree, the beach in the background within sight. This picture is about a moment of youthful contemplation, the body form of the young child, light and shade.