Oppenheimer (2006)
acrylic on canvas 600mm x 600mm x 2 There is much to say on the subject of Robert Oppenheimer, he is best known as ‘the father of the atomic bomb’, however he appears to have…
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Spinoza (2006)
acrylic on canvas, 812mm x 304mm This is the second of two anamorphic paintings recently completed. This one is of Baruch Spinoza, the 17th Century deterministic philosopher and ethicist. Wittgenstein was a fan, going so…
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Descartes (2006)
acrylic on canvas, 812mm x 304mm This is the first of two anamorphic paintings recently completed. This one is of René Descartes, the 17th Century philosopher and mathematician, most famous for his conclusion in The…
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Lamarck, Haeckel, Darwin and the giraffe (2006)
Lamarck. Haeckel, Darwin and the giraffe actylic on canvas 600mm x 450mm. The quote is from Sherlock Holmes, “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Of course…
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Michael (2006)
acrylic on canvas 600mm x 600mm A portrait of my friend Dr Michael Thomas Reader in Cognitive Neuropsychology at Birkbeck College, London.
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Francis Crick, tripping (2006)
acrylic on canvas, 600mm x 600mm Francis Crick is credited, along with James Watson [and to a lesser extent Rosalind Franklin] with the discovery of the structure of DNA. On the surface it appears to…
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Memento vita [self portrait with cortex exposed] (2006)
acrylic on canvas 510mm x 510mm I’ve had the data from an experimental MRI scan of my head for a while, and this is the second piece of work inspired by it. I am fascinated…
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The Wittgenstein Brothers (2006)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, is of course, the father of modern Philosophy. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus being one of the more interesting works in the field of Language and Philosphical Logic, and has been hugely influential across the realms of Philosphy, Linguistics, Psychology and Literary Theory…