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DIARY FROM THE FLOATING WORLD 2023
I'm homesick for London so I move onto a houseboat on Tottenham marshes, my studio is a formica kitchen table two foot square, just big enough for an A3 sketchbook. There are eels nesting under the boat, I sleep with them a few feet below my pillow they invade my dreams and slide their way into my paintings when I wake. I choose watery inks to make my diary from the floating world.
01
Self Portrait in the Floating Studio.
Self portrait in my studio, I may look as if I'm eating the eel but I am really feeding it caviar, my neighbour is a forager on the marshes, he bring me a huge bunch of purple roses one morning...
02
Jane Morris Contemplates her Manifest Destiny
On the other side of the marshes is the William Morris museum, where by coincidence my Neo Naturist film is showing in the Radical Landscape show. Jane Morris considers how different her life would have been if William Morris had not noticed her cheek bones in Covent Garden one night and asked her to model for him
03
The Love Life of Eels
The mysterious love life of eels - to this day 2023, no one has ever seen eels mating. Perhaps they are having an orgy under the boat as I paint this, I will never know. It is not a glass bottomed boat.
04
The Birth of Psychoanalysis
While researching the sex life of eels, Sigmund Freud loses the plot ....spent two years in Trieste trying to solve the mysterybut could find no trace of reproductive organs. It drove him to the edge of madness, he went back to Vienna and concentrated on psychoanalysis.
05
Don't Step on th Cracks.jpg
The house of a million things, my childhood house, a surrealists dreamscape. It was destroyed by fire leaving us only these strange memories which came to me in a dream like trance.
06
The Two and a half Graces
Rubens women in the mysterious night time world of the marshes
07
Medusa with Eels
Medusa in her subteraanean cave, the snakes in her hair repalced by a mass of writing anguilla anguilla eels.
08
Sacred and Profane Love
Apres Dante Gabriel Rossetti the pre raphaelite muses pose as ancient muses and lines are blurred between romanticism and lust.
09
Pandora
Pandora unleashes the terrifying concept of womanhood on mankind.
10
Sexy Medusa
Men were petrified. But also slightly turned on.
11
Medusa and Posiedon.
Another bum date with a Greek God.
12
Tales of the Riverbank.
A dream, I wake at five to the dawn chorus on the River Lea, half awake half asleep this is what I see.
13
Was I ever really a Rubens Woman?
So many times the Neo Naturists are described as Rubens women, post Rubens women, when I go to the Dulwioh picture gallery, I stare at the luscious nudes and I don't see myself.
14
Morgana the Shape Shifter
Eel mythology in comic books, on the kitchen table which serves as my studio while I float on the river.
15
My Rubber Glove hangs There
The kitchen on the boat
16
The View
Light on the River Lea outside my window...
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Self Portrait in the Floating Studio.
Self portrait in my studio, I may look as if I'm eating the eel but I am really feeding it caviar, my neighbour is a forager on the marshes, he bring me a huge bunch of purple roses one morning...
01
Self Portrait in the Floating Studio.
Self portrait in my studio, I may look as if I'm eating the eel but I am really feeding it caviar, my neighbour is a forager on the marshes, he bring me a huge bunch of purple roses one morning...
02
Jane Morris Contemplates her Manifest Destiny
On the other side of the marshes is the William Morris museum, where by coincidence my Neo Naturist film is showing in the Radical Landscape show. Jane Morris considers how different her life would have been if William Morris had not noticed her cheek bones in Covent Garden one night and asked her to model for him
03
The Love Life of Eels
The mysterious love life of eels - to this day 2023, no one has ever seen eels mating. Perhaps they are having an orgy under the boat as I paint this, I will never know. It is not a glass bottomed boat.
04
The Birth of Psychoanalysis
While researching the sex life of eels, Sigmund Freud loses the plot ....spent two years in Trieste trying to solve the mysterybut could find no trace of reproductive organs. It drove him to the edge of madness, he went back to Vienna and concentrated on psychoanalysis.
05
Don't Step on th Cracks.jpg
The house of a million things, my childhood house, a surrealists dreamscape. It was destroyed by fire leaving us only these strange memories which came to me in a dream like trance.
06
The Two and a half Graces
Rubens women in the mysterious night time world of the marshes
07
Medusa with Eels
Medusa in her subteraanean cave, the snakes in her hair repalced by a mass of writing anguilla anguilla eels.
08
Sacred and Profane Love
Apres Dante Gabriel Rossetti the pre raphaelite muses pose as ancient muses and lines are blurred between romanticism and lust.
09
Pandora
Pandora unleashes the terrifying concept of womanhood on mankind.
10
Sexy Medusa
Men were petrified. But also slightly turned on.
11
Medusa and Posiedon.
Another bum date with a Greek God.
12
Tales of the Riverbank.
A dream, I wake at five to the dawn chorus on the River Lea, half awake half asleep this is what I see.
13
Was I ever really a Rubens Woman?
So many times the Neo Naturists are described as Rubens women, post Rubens women, when I go to the Dulwioh picture gallery, I stare at the luscious nudes and I don't see myself.
14
Morgana the Shape Shifter
Eel mythology in comic books, on the kitchen table which serves as my studio while I float on the river.
15
My Rubber Glove hangs There
The kitchen on the boat
16
The View
Light on the River Lea outside my window...
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