I am retired
and have painted for many years. In the
60’s I realised that I felt totally opposed to the modern trends in art. I worked for a time in The Strand, London and
I had my lunch break in the National Gallery, sitting in turn in the various
different rooms. The English Victorian artists became my great love. I regarded (and always have) everything from the
impressionists right up to the present day popular artists as not to be taken seriously. Commercial artists from the 1970's, the painters of posters, film boards and scenery in theatres have more skill.
However, art today is the best form
of corporate investment as we all know. Nothing to do with art at all.
POETRY AND MY ART
The Highwayman... was my first painting; inspired by the poem by Alfred
Noyes, I have included the opening part of it on my poems page but please read the whole poem. I spent some time in the Merchant Navy and on surviving a great storm in the Southern Ocean I
painted We never saw them again..... After this I became disillusioned with the art world of the day and I stopped painting.
I began to write some poems of my own under the name of Woz and published two novels, and two decades later when I took up my brushes again I thought to paint just what I liked and just for myself. My poems became the inspiration for my pictures; so the poem for the picture preceded the picture. And Vesta, Salome, The Knight's Return and The Knight Who Found The Grail were to follow.
The
Poem combined with the Picture says all there is to be said.