Looking for the Light (2010)
acrylic on canvas 762mm x 1062mm For some people the very act of contemplation results in even greater uncertainty. Perhaps some truths simply cannot be found by inward reflection alone.
Congregation painting
Category: painting
Congregation painting
Future Self (2010)
acrylic on canvas 762mm x 1062mm Each of us will die, that much is certain. However, our feelings about what happens next are the subject of much debate. As an atheist, I have no problem…
Congregation painting
Pixellated Self (2010)
Finally getting around to uploading my paintings for Congregation 2010. Here’s the first of two self portraits. acrylic on canvas 762mm x 1062mm Part of my reasoning behind assuming the pseudonym ‘shardcore’ was provide a…
3d mixed media painting
Gordon Moore (2010)
We live in an electronic age, where the microprocessor is ubiquitous. So pervasive is the use of integrated circuitry, that we have become indifferent to the phenomenal computational power surrounding us, and hence blithe to…
exhibitions painting
The unLOL cats (2009)
The internet is full of cat pictures, generally showing them as nonsense talking idiots. However, cats are not simply LOLing machines, I live with two cats who actively dislike each other. Inspired by their daily…
painting
Patrick Moore (2009)
Another great British Eccentric, Patrick Moore, presenter of the UKs longest running TV programme, The Sky at Night. Silver spray and acrylic on canvas, 600mm x 600mm Some visitors have noted that the silver spray…
painting
Heinz Wolff (2009)
The second in my series of eccentrics, I give you Heinz Wolff, who presented The Great Egg Race in the 80s. Watching the show was a weekly ritual in the shardcore household, it was full…
painting
Magnus Pyke (2009)
First of a new series of paintings of great British eccentrics. Eccentricity seems to go hand-in-hand with enthusiasm – a winning combination for televisual entertainment, particularly in the field of scientific communication. UK Television in…
Congregation painting
Pride (2009)
In contemporary society, pride occupies a strange place betwixt vice and virtue. More often we talk of being ‘proud of who we are’ or ‘proud of our achievements’ in virtuous terms rather than admonishing others…
Congregation painting
Kindness (2009)
As part of my collaboration with Sam Hewitt on the subject of sins and virtues, I have painted my daughter, with her cat Wolfgang for the virtue of ‘kindness’ Kindness is the ultimate social lubricant.…