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St. Nicholas of Bari

Some work in response to Bicci di Lorenzo (active late 1380s - 1452). "St Nicholas of Bari Banishing the Storm" in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, depicts the saint rescuing a ship in distress. The work is a double-square, with the left-hand square showing St Nicholas in an early dawn, still starlit sky. The right-hand square remains in storm-filled darkness.
I liked the idea of making some pieces based on this stark division - contrasting activity with stillness.



Studies ...
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   Calming the Storm (Terracotta)











​   15.0 x 12.5 cms
    Acrylic and collage on board
     
​    £255






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   Calming the Storm (Deep Green)









   16.5 x 12.0 cms
    Acrylic and collage on board

    SOLD





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Picture

Calming the Storm (Olive)










20.5 x 16.5 cms
Acrylic and collage on board


 £325



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   Calming the Storm (study)




    




    20 x 14.5 cms

    Acrylic and collage on board


     £255




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​   Calming the Storm (Study)











  20.7 x 15.5 cms
  Acrylic and collage on paper

   £265



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Large paintings

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    Large Green (Calming the Storm)
    
    










     6
7 x 85 cms
     Acrylic on board

    
POA





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    Hot Orange (The tree that grows on the rocks
​    in the wind)















    
67 x 67 cms
     Acrylic on board

     
POA



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Archive stills

I imagine finding an archive of photographic images from an abandoned boat found in the White Sea, near the town of St Nicholas, in northern Russia. These works are linked to "The Finding II".

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Archive stills (St Nicholas) – nos. 138, 165     
 
25 x 33 cm
Acrylic in two parts on board       
  
 













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£360


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   Archive stills (St Nicholas) – nos. 16, 43     
 
   23 x 33 cm
   Acrylic in two parts on board       
  

 
 
 








  £360





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The following are small-scale works which combine found photographs and collage. They explore the idea of how St Nicholas (now an 'ordinary man') might have reflected on his coming of the storm all those years ago ... How does he remember it? How did it affect him? Does that sense of wonder and blessing stay with him still?

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    There was even moonlight on the water ...









    8 x 10 cms
    Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

    
£180



    

Picture

 Now I swim; then I flew ... into the lightening dawn

 







​ 9.8 x 9.0 cms

 Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

 
£180


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     The sunlight; everything fractured somehow 










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     8.0 x 11.2 cms
    Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

    
£180
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  It was cold and the stars were falling it seemed 







    17.8 x 12.4 cms
    Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

    
£180
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Picture
 
   
That was then






  
10 x 6 cms
   Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

   
£190


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Picture

 I saw a man going under




 18.7 x 9 cms
 Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

 
£180



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    Above, and beyond the shadows 
















     20.5 x 13.5 cms
     Acrylic, collage and found photograph on board

     
£180


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Some other recent work ...
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    The Finding II







   
Acrylic & collage 

    SOLD




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    The Finding IV

    Acrylic & collage
    
19 x 13.5 cms









    £245




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     Untitled (243)

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​    
15 x 11.5 cms
    Acrylic & collage 

   NFS
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Picture


  M d'A-

 






  13.5 x 11.0 cms

  Acrylic, collage and charcoal

  £145
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Picture
  

​   Bewick's Journey I










   
14.5 x 10.5 cms
   
Acrylic, collage and pencil
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   NFS





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Picture

American Journey - before a storm







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​ 13.7 x 8.5 cms
 Acrylic, collage & pencil

 
£140






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