SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Limewood. 40 x 24cm.
I have a boxed set of Tarkovsky films that I am slowly watching. I loved Andrei Rublev and wrote in my sketchbook, Simplicity Without Flourishes. I could watch it again, even though not a lot happens, slowly. In the last hour, a character, not Rublev casts a giant bell in a hole. It is quite a process. I looked up Rublev's paintings of icons and was taken with his image of Saint John Chrysostom. He had a very modern pattern on his outerwear, and I had already heard of Chrysostom because I had read that he loved St Paul so much he wanted to get physically close to him (eat him).
This piece was included in the Fringe Arts Bath Open Art Prize at 44AD Gallery in Bath, October 2025. It is available for purchase for £550.
LANDSCAPE 1
Limewood. 26 x 26cm.
This is a collage in offcuts of an illustration I drew in my sketchbook upon entering hospital with a heart condition in 2021. I decided to recreate
it to see whether I could get a piece accepted by the Bath Society of Artists 120th Open Exhibition. I thought this might be something they would like.
How wrong I was. This piece is available for purchase for £300.
LANDSCAPE 2
Limewood. 26 x 26cm.
This piece depicts pedestal Saint Simeon Stylites up a telegraph pole in a field outside Weymouth. Beneath him curled around the pole is a serpent, which represents the temptations of the devil. A companion piece to the above Landscape 1, Landscape 2 was entered into the Bath Society of Artists 120th Open exhibition, but they declined to include it. This piece is available for purchase for £300.
