12 paintings with text, 2017-2019 (all acrylics on canvas, 80x60cm)

Bird of Paradise

2013: "Bowing in his best feathers the matador threw a look in response to so many scarves, facing the long silence."

The Toadstool

2014: "Insects, playing around in a streak of sunlight, in perfect joy."

Love is a Shark

2013: "Love, trailing a slave trader, love is a shark, a playing card, fertilizing poppies and barley."

Red Fish

2015: "Barrels were thrown into this hole, home-building creatures seemed to like the extened reef, though something was wrong with their laughter."

Glacier Lakes

2013: "Mists lifting, swan drift across glacier lakes, swarms of krill, raven, squid on the seas."

Stranded Squid

2014: "Solitary eyes, pointless arms of the stranded squid, motionless amid the dune's wandering."

Prowling Scavengers

2013: "Prowling scavengers, when no-one is looking, the route ... map it out for your [friends]."

Siren and Dinosaur

2013: "A moody dinosaur, voyeur to the lost shyness of a siren, keeps an eye on the proteas' silent red hearts, unknowable, as [pleasure]."

Moth Woman

2017: "A taste of the wick, flicked at the dusty flutter, a kind of offer, made with no second option."

Rockpool

2018: "Remember beginning, squatting over hypnotic debris."

Alien Kernel

2018: "A crusted surface with a cotton underbelly, true silence on scorched paths in summer, things shared come with an alien kernel"

Green Air

2018 "The fog makes absolute the silence. Forever is a state that dissipates along canals of green air ..."

"...doing must let slip the stages of the doing, and we never are, and all never is, and if these are riddles, so be it. I bow out, away from any understanding, writing this, perception, as it bores down, comes numb against a field of water that will not be wet."