People – familiar, fantastical and unknown.
Happy Bunny 25 Blue Skies The Patient: read accompanying story S.F.Cody (for Paul) Poly friends: me, Barry, Marky Mark, Alex, Timbo, Gannaway, Anna Leicester Locals: Margaret and Frank Leicester Locals: The Arts Worker Leicester Locals: the school kids
Leicester Locals: the Artist
Leicester Locals: the Bakery ladies
Leicester Locals: the Market Stallholder
Leicester Locals: the Security Guard
Leicester Locals: the Shopkeeper
Leicester Locals: the Arts Worker 2
Leicester Locals: the Big Issue Seller
Leicester Locals: the Café Waitress
Leicester Locals: the DJ
Leicester Locals: the Librarian
Leicester Locals: the Seamstress
Leicester Locals: the Record LibrarianThe Family: read accompanying story The Believers
: read accompanying storyGood Little Catholics Peter and Paul
: read accompanying storyThe Pilot
: read accompanying storyWeak
: read accompanying storyBurlesque
: read accompanying storySelf Portrait 2002 For Amanda – gone to jump the moon…
:read accompanying storyThe Travelling Man
: read accompanying story18 eyes The Dripping Men Paul and Beth: Clutton Hill Gothic Everyday Saints 1 Everyday Saints 2 The Beast in Me Little Emily ‘YES’ – for Paul Cody Kaspar Welcome to the Grand Parade British Comedians The Friends The Puritans Bloodletting
: read accompanying poemThe Rose (in loving memory of Diane) The Dark Inside
: read accompanying poemBalancing Act Complex Zappa Wonderland (for Niz and Pilg) Cordyceps Gertler and Ruby
: read accompanying poemPortraits of the Perverse 1
Portraits of the Perverse 2
Portraits of the Perverse 3
Portraits of the Perverse 4
Portraits of the Perverse 5
Portraits of the Perverse 6The Red Book
The Sleeping Skin
:read accompanying poem

A portrait of Alfie Purnell
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The people (and dog) that inspired his ‘Variations on an original theme’
Popularly known as the Enigma Variations, it was written between October 1898 and February 1899, and is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on a single original theme.



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‘When open eyes are wide blue skies
The heart and mind grow fast entwined
And sleeping souls awake so then
What once we were, we are again’

WILD MAN #1

WILD MAN #2

WILD MAN #3

WILD MAN #4

(a portrait of Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey)
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(a portrait of a challenging year)
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(portrait for a friend)
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