• As icons of the 20th century go, you'll not find many bigger than Marilyn Monroe. I got to thinking about her mysterious death...
• This is a picture of, well, a kinda smiley sun-face thing. I made it with coloured pencils and a spare half-hour.
• Another picture created with coloured pencils during my school days, this is a foot. Not twelve inches, more like 10½. See it as an exciting negative.
• Created with fabric paints, this fishy offering was done on a T-shirt for Judith (my ex-girlfriend) for a birthday a few years ago.
• Towards the end of my days at secondary school, I moved away from pencil drawing and experimented with painting on a much larger scale.
• As used for some of my Christmas 2000 Christmas Cards, this negative image I call Cycle-Path.
• I found a picture of Lord Kitchener on the net. It occurred to me he looked like he was calling for new members of The Village People, so I edited it.
• Me, during a cheery moment in a churchyard. It was halfway through 2001, July 1st, and I felt a lot happier than I looked.
• Using my Casio cameras extended exposure feature, I took this shot of Aylesbury's Market Square in the middle of the night.
• A composite image, based on a photo of me in the bathroom, colour enhanced, turned into a negative (bar the eyes) and finally the text was dropped in.
• Iconic images are my thing. I can see this as a poster in every students bedroom up and down the country. I am going to seek help for my problems though.
• Picture No. 1 that I did for Top Gear Magazine, in an effort to become an illustrator for the. I got nowhere. Damn.
• My second attempt to get my artwork into Top Gear Magazine as a guest bloke in the Data Dad section.
• A third and final crack of the art whip. It would have been cool to get my pictures as well as my words in, but sometimes fate has other plans.
• Not actually edited, but a fine Arty Farty shot never-the-less. This was taken at Stowe House near Buckingham in May 2001.
• It also looks rather cool as a negative image. I don't look so hot with an aqua face, but the purplish column on the left is particularly beautiful I think.
• Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire is famous for many things: Roundabouts, a very big shopping centre and most bizarrely of all, some concrete cows.
• Also an alleged cow, but it looks like no bovine I've ever seen. And believe me, I've been looking. I suspect it be that rarest of things, a concrete badger.
• A portrait of a portrait of a portrait of a portrait of the artist. Something of an ego-trip I guess. :-P
• Spiders! I found the colours produced by making a photograph of my eight-legged chum here into a negative quite stunning.
• Andy Worhol would be proud of me. Or talking to me through his legal representatives!
• An enhanced colour picture of my old Yamaha RD350-YPVS which shows off it's deep blood-red after-market paint-work and traffic scarring air-horns.
• Me again, but with one minor (mirror) addition. If you look closely, you'll notice that I've got two left sides of my face.
• Yes, the trees I can see from my bedroom window. Yes, a simple negative image. And yes, all three figures in it are me. Sorry.
• You've been here yourself many many times. A bored evening. A neon tube lamp bought for a friend. The sudden recollection of a judo suit in the garage...
• Godammit, if it didn't happen again! A lilac lamp caught my eye whilst passing the same shop in Milton Keynes and, once again I was suckered in.
• The Wicker Man is a cult British horror movie, which has gained classic status through the quality of the acting and the quirkiness of the plot.
• Towering Infernal. I've often spoken about Aylesbury and it's contribution to the architecture of the western world. With more than a note of irony.
• There's no end to the things I'll do because a total stranger asked me to. This attitude will get me in trouble some day, but until that happens, I'll keep doing it.
• Artistic Church. Not far from my domicile is this lovely church. This shot (like the one below) is a black and white one that I've played with the tint on.
• Casa Mila, Barcelona, April 2002. Take a crazy architect working at the turn of the 19th century. Add a financier who had second thoughts half way through...
• Negative St. Paul's Cathedral. This is one of the favourite photographs I've taken. St. Paul's and the Millennium foot bridge, viewed from the South Bank.
• Negative London Eye. Taken on the same day as the shot above, this is the British Airways London Eye big wheel, viewed from the Westminster Bridge.
• Arch and Kitcar at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. June 2002. I've always wanted a cool picture of me with my Kitcar under a negative sky...
• Face pulling for fun and profit. A picture which, if proof were needed at this stage, proves I'm a egocentric freak.
• Spain, April 2002. Another negative picture, this time of the water in a Spanish swimming pool. Doesn't it look inviting?
• Arch and Kitcar. Stowe House again, June 2002. Unhappy with the picture of me with my Kitcar (up above) I returned in sunnier weather to take this shot.
• The Palace of Westminster. Not edited, yet a fine picture I took in June 2002 whilst in London to see Dave Gorman recording a TV show.
• 1 minute exposure photo featuring the setting moon and a helicopter, seen from my bedroom window, July 20th 2002.
• Three Heads. The result of boredom, March 2003. I'd grown this beard, right, and then I shaved half of it off, as you do...
• Roving the Land - In negative. Taken in May 2003 while Geocaching. I really like the neon effect, caused by the weird colours the car had been painted.
• Making faces. September 2003. Just a silly composite of bits of pictures of me from the age of two onwards.
• I made this! This lamp features a soft-tone 40watt bulb and internal storage shelves. It's made from wood and paint and a bit of wire for the railings.
• The viewing platform features 'Ted', a hand-crafted miniature lighthouse keeper. He stands, proudly, looking out for shipping in distress.
• My bedside lamp was made from a small neon tube and the shell of an exit sign I found on a skip-diving expedition.
• My piece of carving, created, unusually, with a very high pressure industrial sandblaster and a plain old 38cm long plank.
• On a bored afternoon in June 2003 I spotted some builders waste in a skip and said to myself, "That'd make a nice sculpture", as you do.
• For my A-Level art course (I got an N, the bastards) I often worked with ceramics, creating my own tactile-organic style by not planning the piece at all.
• My playfully named 'Fridge-Friesian' (a combination of Fridge and Friesian) was inspired by my toasted-sandwich maker which is in the shape of a cow.
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