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Saint George, later in life, meets another dragon and things don’t go as well as they did last time.

George has had a good life but when he gets older and a bit wiser he begins to question things he would have taken for granted previously.

Where is my beautiful lance? What is my beautiful lance? Why is that dragon looking at me that way?

The lance, a symbol of sexual and spiritual virility is broken, it’s more of a snapped blind-persons cane. It’s a symbol of beliefs, of a faith that’s broken.

These Lance paintings are about my father, poor bugger, he wasted a large part of his life fooling around with a seriously fucked-up religion, only to find later in life that he didn’t have the resources to get past what he saw as a loss of faith.

I said “What does it matter? So there’s no God, move on to something else, open a bookshop or something”.

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She lived in the beautiful area of Porangahau in the North Island of New Zealand.

Martin Luther was a bit of a prick really, I never did like having him over to stay.

I just mixed up another batch of the medium I use for oil painting. I seem to always loose or forget the recipe so I decided to store it here for safe keeping. This is a simple recipe with damar resin, stand oil and gum turps. I don't bother with dryers or other ingredients, too lazy.

You can of course buy a ready-made medium but they generally don't tell you what's in them and also I find something meditative about preparing my own. It's a method of procrastination that feels as if you are doing something art related - anything but actually face the risky business of painting.

The recipe for the medium I use is in the proportions 1:2:5. That is, one part damar varnish, two parts stand oil and five parts refined turpentine. This gives me the base mix and I pour some off and add a little more turps for the lean underpainting as required.

See the full recipe here... and feel free to let me know if you have a variation on the theme.

Another recently digitised image. This painting is titled The Beggar Feeling Awkwardly Clad in Saint Martin's Famous Cloak. It also appeared on the postcard for the exhibition titled Naked held at Baby Enzo back in 1995. I realise this blog is well and truly ex facto delectatio morosa but such is the onanistic nature of blogging. :-) 

I recently had transparencies of some works digitised and I'm in the process of adding the new images to the site. This one titled Sowers is from 1991 and was sold at an exhibition a while later. It was about Reagan and Gaddafi and their insane behaviour back then - nothing much has changed really, different punk-actors the same old story.