I work in series, varying media, style and content. My paintings iclude landscapes, poetraits and abstractions in oils and acrylics. My sculptures are carved stone abstracts and cast figures.

These images are from the Croton Series.

The common Croton bush, kown as "Leaves of Fire: in Jamaica, is considered potent in African-Jamaican traditional spiritual rituals, religious healing meditations and folkloore.  Crotons are used to mark graves and to grace altars and gardens.  Several family deaths have impressed the fact of mortality on my consciousness.  Painting crotons became a meditative focus for the notion that... * "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower is my destroyer..." (Dylan Thomas).  I adopted a "Carpe Diem" philosophy of savouring nature's ceauty and the transient golden moment
[* This is the title of the painting, displayed on the right]
 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour,
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief.
So Dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold will stay.

-- Robert Frost

My Gem - Croton Series
Oil on canvas. 28 x 20 cm