Paintings

Oil on Canvas 36 x 24 Inches July 1990 I was in the south of France during the Italia1990 World Cup finals at a café in Antibes when an Aston Martin pulled up with an old prune driving. Already a bit envious I went off the charts when a young blond jumped in beside him.

New office with big white empty walls. A solution was required so I painted this canvas as a wall hanger and the name has stuck. Nothing too elaborate in the thinking of colours – they were left on the pallet from a previous painting.

A statement on the act of Love. The colours and the positioning of the shapes are a comment on the two powers in any relationship; one dominant and the other subservient. It has a cold reality feeling about it.

Work, wine and beer was where I spent my time in 1983 and 1984. From working in a local hotel, painting and drinking wine at night to playing football, drinking beer and singing German football songs at the weekend. Enfach so.

Oil on Board 36 x 24 Inches November 1984 This painting came about due to peer pressure. It was never enough to have imagination, you needed to be able to paint the human form if you wanted to succeed. This was as far as I allowed myself to bend in conforming to others.

Man on Bike was a painting I did for an exhibition in Erlangen. It is a traditional wet on wet styled painting that took 90 minutes to do. I simply got it right the first time and although for weeks after I went to change it, it remains as is.

The last day in 1984 was a difficult one for me. I was living alone in Germany on New Year’s eve. I had the window to my room open and could hear the revellers warming up. I started painting about the Last Day and found this.

So many mistakes in this piece and so rough it makes me cringe even now – but it did get me started and made me realise that if I wanted to get the finished item I craved it would never come quickly or without many false starts.