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Recent Work: Mapping

From Babylon to Google we see how man loves to know where he is, where he's been, and where he's going. 

It may be a map to show how powerful you are or to see how close the enemy is better still show us where the treasure is buried. There are a myriad of reasons why they are created but they are all visual representations of our place in an environment. In this piece that environment is the mind.

Mind Map 2024 Watercolour and ink 22 x 15 inches on watercolour paper.

original mind map

A Journey With Maps

No man is an island - original map art
Broken Heart Map original art

No Man is an Island

A map of Relationship. John Donne was right but he can feel cut off from the mainland at times and art can say things that words can only stumble over, this is before the bridge was built.

watercolour and collage 2024  21 x 30 cm

Broken Heart Map

watercolour on board fragment

12 x 9 inch approx 2024

Fukushima Ghosts

Fukashima radiation original map
unfishable waters original map

Radiation Zone

The spread of radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear reactor and the unfishable waters. Disaster maps.

 

Japanese paper watercolour and ink 20 x 30 cm approx

Enter Shikari original map Common Dreads

Unfishable Waters

The price we pay to keep the lights on has become too high in financial and ecological terms.

​The Doomsday clock is at 89 seconds to midnight.

Japanese paper watercolour and ink 20 x 30 cm approx

Common Dreads Album cover for Enter Shikari. 2009

The Split original relationship map

The Split.

Fear creates barriers from Berlin to Gazza and now the Mexican border. We also create them on an individual level. This piece explores  the noman's land and buffer zones we decide to make

 

Watercolour and Ink 30 x 20 cm approx 2024

Mapscapes

 Abstract Mapscapes.

The Accidental maps.

Top: 20 x 16  inch oil and acrylic on canvas 2023/24

This canvas started life as just a palette  to mix colours

over time the world appeared.

Bottom right: Watercolour 13 x 12 inch approx 2024

Bottom left: Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inch 2024

Map of the abstract world
original abstract map
Abstract original art of a coastline

Illustrated Maps

Arcane map original art

Arcane Fragment

Illustrated Map Fragment 

based on early maps of the middle ages

beautifully designed but completely inaccurate

usually copied from earlier incorrect maps.

12 x 9 inch watercolour and ink 2019

Alchemia Angliae

Alchemical original map of England and Wales
Underbelly original map sub culture

Subventre: Underbelly

A map of sub-culture and criminal activity.

Everything you need to be neglected by society.

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Acrylic and ink on canvas 20 x 16 inch 2024

Subventre

Alchemical map of England and Wales.

Set around the time of John Dee a fantastical map of alchemy using ancient symbols and  Bosch altar pieces.

22 x 15 inch watercolour 2024

original map of the Sea of Troubles

The Land of Ozymandias 

A land of forgotten histories.

The traces of a civilization.

Watercolour 20 x 10 inch approx 2020

Sea of Troubles

The sea of troubles and how to navigate it.

An archipelago of negative emotions.

Guide your ship carefully around the rocks of despair.

Avoid the island of worry, keep clear of the Isle of

​Fear until you find yourself completely lost.

20 x 10 inch approx watercolour    2022

Ozymandias Island original map
original map of japanese ghosts

The Ghosts and Demons of Hokaido

Map of myths and legends of Northern Japan. 22 x 15 inch approx 2024

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