” ” #6 From C.G Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’
“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason...
Gouache – flat
Illustration & Graphic Design
” ” #3
"Fruits like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the day breaks they have seen.”
” ” #6 From C.G Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’
“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason the woods were the place where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and its awe inspiring workings”
C.G Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
The Dream files #1
I enter one room and the walls drop away, the floor is like a jetty and a long way below is a broad and muddy river that reminds me of the Ganges.
“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason...
Dead Rat by Mervyn Peake Were I a farmer I would call you vermin Because you’d be the villain of...
The following, is adapted from pages of a book written by my grandfather, Adrian Ryan – ‘Still Life Painting Techniques’...
Illustrator: unknown “Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to...
Have a look at this amazing list of colours at Wikipedia, and the tantalizing names that have been found...
As I paint I am often struck by the changing life of the palette and feel both exhilarated and aggrieved...
I’m in an art workshop doing INSET training with several other lecturers. It’s a gloomy day – there isn’t enough...
Isola Bella, a small island on Lago Maggiore, Italy, was once a fishing village before being taken over by count...
“The knowledge of our differences and separateness is clarified and strengthened by the knowledge, held at the same time, of...
I did this study on paper of Caryatid by Modigliani when I was 16 or 17 and then it lived...
Tree and car in an unhappy meeting.
…”Fruits … like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought...
“The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where,...
” ‘Originality’ is the unsought and unnoticed product of a gifted artist’s successful attempt to be honest and truthful and...
When I was young I loved to climb and play in trees. On finding a comfortable branch I would rest...
