Awesome Radiance of Moonwashed Snow

Everything is frozen in the stillness of time; the stark, dark tree trunks imprison the nocturnal journeyings of the dreaming village.

Suddenly the shadows shift. An owl ghosts across the moon and, belly low, the glistening pelted fox brushes Japanese calligraphy across the landscape.

Size: 66 X 48
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Flow of the Chi (3 seperate artworks see below)

The three 1978 paintings that comprise the "Flow of the Chi" triptych, have been included in the gallery, simply because they demonstrate the uncanny power of the creative process to show us the goals that await us decades into the future.

Flow of the Chi, The Flower Phoenix

The phoenix is the motif of death and rebirth, by fire. My phoenix relates to the Egyptian ibis-headed god Thoth - the bird from the transcendent principle. His flowered plumes are a love gift from a heavenly animal.

Size: 82 X 25.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Flow of the Chi, The Crystal Goddess

At the time of painting this triptych, I was looking for something… but didn't know what. Today, as I look at these images, I am amazed at how blind the mind can be to such a psychic floorshow.

As I look at the paintings, I see it was all right there from the start.

The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung used to draw a mandala every morning. It's a useful way of seeing how things are on the inside.

Size: 82 X 25.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Flow of the Chi, The Flower Dragon

The dragon is a composite transcendent symbol of the snake and the bird. It marks the movement of the lower transcendence from underworld snake-consciousness through early reality to attain the transcendence of winged flight.

Although the dragon's wings are strewn with ancient Parsi carnations, he's powerful and uncompromising.

Size: 82 X 25.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Delhi Station

India has a population of over a billion people, and the multitude travel by train. Delhi Station is a vast, seething vortex of heat, noise, anxiety, drama and excitement.

The platforms are gritty with soot, overlaid with the ruby-red salivations of the betel nut chewers. In-between the hustle and bustle, babies are born, gipsy women cook rice, men play cards and vendors hawk Krishna pictures. In the time it took to do a fast sketch, all the people melted away to give place to a trainload of wild-eyed pilgrims complete with drums and tambourines.

Size: 122 X 90
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Deny Not Heaven, It Is Yours Today

I fell asleep one night in 1995 while studying the third manual of "A Course in Miracles" and dreamed of this painting. When I awoke, I felt so filled with gratitude to God for the sense of peace and joyfulness that attended the words of the glorious promise held by angels in strawberry pink retro evening gowns - very Balmain.

Gratitude to God is the way He is remembered, for love is never distant from a grateful heart.

Size: 36 X 26
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Gifts of the Earth Goddess

She is Ganeshwar, the elephant god in female form, heavy with child, breasts patterned with bridal henna, carrying the fruits of the gods. Dolphins play, the moon is crazed and the dove of the annunciation descends on the virgin.

This is something of a watershed work, and marks a realisation of the liberating power and healing inherent in the female principle.

Size: 83 X 63
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Garden of Heavenly Delights

She is as tall as the trees and as serene as a mountain lake. In flowing embroidered robes, the Crown of Heaven above her head, her sole focus is upon the miniature being in her embrace.

And the lilies and roses, the larkspurs fill the world with fragrance and colour as faint as ecstacy they lean towards the Heavenly Mother.

Size: 100 X 61
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Ghosts, Dreams and Roses

There's a lot of heartache in this picture, but a lot of hope too. I was sitting in the dark, looking at a jug of roses - lit by just a little moonlight.

It was like an analogy of life. Some are budding, strong. Vigorous… others are full-blown, heavy with perfume… and others have become ghost roses.

What happens to the colour and the perfume ? And what about the dreams of roses ? And the heaven of roses ? And the God ?

Size: 74 X 71
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Madonna and Child

After the Nicopaeia Virgin in the Basilica of San Marco, Venice. I was captivated by the knowing innocence of the original, the sad resignation, the absence of being - all the hundred and one emotions we attempt to read into that inward-turning gaze.

Nevertheless, the gold shimmers with freshly minted fervour, the dusty jewels smoulder and the eyes prickle for reasons of their own while the heart leaps cartwheels with dizzy elation.

Size: 39 X 30
Medium: Tempera and Oil with gold leaf on gesso.

The Dancing Bridge

The transition between different levels of existence is no big deal crash-bang moment. Rather, it is a gentle, completely natural process that is happening all the time.

Even when we are most physically vibrant, even then, the being within the chrysalis touches the dreaming self.

The Dancing Bridge is a moment in time when the barricades go down, the blindfolds fall away and everything that ever was, or will be, comes together in a whirling, shimmering celebration of joy and love, love and joy.

Size: 60 X 91
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Shaman Dreams

The theme is faith across all time and through all worlds. Upon the ruins of centuries and civilisations, carnage and destruction, Life continuously presents us with miraculous new beginnings.

The phoenix and the egg. Dragon circle. Faith and hope. In my end is my beginning.

Size: 90 X 61
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Unknown Territory

Imagination walks the wired nerve webs that link the blood-red hibiscus ganglia. Jumping off in my own thesaurus of imagery, I plunge through dizzying theatrical landscapes, peopled by pantheon of gods and demons... all the creatures of myth and legend… All the nightingale roses… all the hundred year briars. Here's the April of Elliot and Chaucer, the Fire Bird and the Swan of Tuanella. The painting is but the echo of an echo of a half-remembered dream.

Size: 74 X 47
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Bride

On the fondament in front of the church of San Giorgio. The bride steps away from the wedding party to pose for the photographer.

It is a blustery day in June and the skittish wind dances tarantellas with her gown and whisks the veil high into the sky. As the bridal bouquet begins to disintegrate the carnival spirits of la Serenissima enter the moment."

Size: 71 X 74
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Famous Queens - Esther

QUEEN ESTHER. Another woman of immense character and courage. The painting was inspired by a Victorian stained glass window. This queen of the old testament was the wife of Ahesuerus (Artaxerxes), King of Persia, 485 - 465 BC. Largely due to his wife's intervention, the King was moved to use his power to prevent the massacre of the Jews.

To achieve something of the luminosity associated with this medium, special glazes were used, sometimes as many as seventeen transparent films of varying tones were applied to achieve the required depth and intensity of colour.

Size: 177 X 57
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Famous Queens - Sheba

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. The country of Sheba or Saba, whose name means Host of Heaven, was Abyssinia, located on the eastern tip of the Red Sea.

It was a wealthy country, rich in gold and precious stones. But more importantly, it was the centre of astronomical learning. Although little is known of the Queen of Sheba, who travelled to the Court of King Solomon in Jerusalem, she must have been a woman of great character and courage, highly intelligent and with a commanding presence.

Size: 177 X 57
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Unicorn Quest

There are the Seekers in the sky and the Witnesses on the hill. There is an offering of transcendental fruits and a white peacock. There is also a masked virgin, kites, flowers, nerve wires in the sky.

Thousands of eyes, in the peacock feathers and flurries of leaves, everywhere. This picture is actually a chart of a search and a finding.

Size: 92 X 61
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Virgin Forest

Three carefree young girls have come through the forest to draw water at the river. Soft, caressing breezes ruffle the leaves, sweet bird calls and the heavy fragrance of jungle blooms lull the senses. The world is a beautiful place. What the maidens don't see, but the viewer does is the hunting Leopard hidden in dappled sun shadows and the impassive spirit gatherer."

Size: 122 X 92
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Persian, The Moon and The Rose

His name was Pushkin, the most beautiful, most aristocratic pure-bred white Persian. And the most telepathic. One New Year's Eve I saw him sitting outside the kitchen window in line with the moon and the rose. While I was getting the preliminary painting on canvas, I was silently begging him not to move.

And he didn't, he just sat there for close on an hour and a half. I've always been fond of this painting, and grateful that I was there to see the magic.

Size: 61 X 51
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Light in the Forest

Near the start of the ornamental canal, on the outskirts of Munich, is a pillared rotunda screened by iron filigree-work.

Peer through the arabesques, and there in the half-light he stands - the great bronze statue of the 'Golden Hind'. The enormous antlers are scrolled parentheses for the dominant cross between them.

Of course, I'd read about the holy stag before, but coming upon such a powerful image, so totally unexpectedly, shot it into subcon forever.

Size: 74 X 61
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Hothouse

Off the east coast of Madagascar lies the small island of lle St.Marie. Close to the shore stands the charred ruin of a once elegant large French villa. Who knows what happened ? Who the inhabitants were ? Now, the vines and tropical plants have taken over the shell.

Long- legged roosters strut the crossbeams, large eyed lemurs peer through veils on morning glory… and the ashen scent of juju perfumes the breezes with musk orchids and mystery.

Size: 90 X 60
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Healing

Latitude 8 deg. N, Longitude 52 deg. E. where the whales live, the dolphins play and the angels sing "La Nave Blu". Here all is freedom, innocence and joy as ocean creatures and sea spirits celebrate God's sacred gift of wholeness.

Size: 83 X 63
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Healer

A 14th century healer brings the sick merchant peonies to cure him of epilepsy. Ref. Trinity College Cambridge. The rich middle-eastern merchant waits with hope beneath a wonderously worked covering. The bearer of the peonies comes from another place in answer to the merchant's prayers. He is accompanied by spirit energies, seen in various light forms, sometimes even as flowers.

You ask, do I believe that the merchant was healed ? When the process has evolved to this advanced stage, and the psychic powers of nature are positively involved… I would say that the desired outcome is inevitable.

Size: 61 X 80
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Lady and the Lion

A young Alexandrian prostitute who in the 5th century came to be known as St.Mary of Egypt. She had been inspired by an icon of the Blessed Virgin to become a hermit in the desert.

Here she lived for the rest of her lifetime. Her only companion was a little desert lion. A few years prior to her death, a monk named Zosim encountered her in the desert. The next time he went to look for Mary, he found her dead body, which the sorrowing lion helped him bury. This story is commemorated in the 13th century stained glass windows in Chartres, Bourges and Auxerre.

Size: 61 X 30
Medium: Painted and gilded woodcarving

Sabzi Mandi, Kishanger

In late summer the gritty hot wind from the Rajhastani desert makes mirages of the solid world, and rings the nostrils with ancient bone-dust.

The vegetable market at Kishanghar is even more highwired than usual. There's a heady mix of smells: incense, spices, rotting vegetation and ordure. A great babble of noise, barter in many dialects, shrieking Hindi pop songs, and the screams of the goats being butchered in a dry ditch.

Size: 62 X 39
Medium: Oil on Canvas

It is surprising how often dolphins manifest in my work. I can be doing serious classical stuff - and next thing, these larky characters are frolicking around in halos and cherub wings. Not that I mind. Their joyfulness of spirit has rescued and borne me safe to shore more times than I can remember.’

Ever since scientist Dr John Lilly began his dolphin research project on human/dolphin communication in the ‘seventies, this painter has grown to accept that these amazing creatures have become absorbed into her psyche – as living, breathing holographs of the state of consciousness that links to love, compassion and bliss.

Size: 85 x 53
Medium: Original acrylics on canvas

Embarking upon a work such as this was a bit of an indulgence. But I wanted to know what it would feel like for a contemporary painter to contemplate Holiness in close-up, continuously for the entire length of time it would take to complete the picture.

Well, I can tell you this, just start painting angels and you’ll never need Prozac. They are the most utterly calming, comforting and uplifting of images to dwell upon. As one works there is an awareness of an almost tangible flow of love moving from the heart, through the arm, down the brush and onto the canvas. Such a pity that the hard-edged world of ours has been stripped of such miraculous icons of healing grace and beauty.

Size: 59 x 40
Medium: Original oil on canvas

The Rainbow Dolphins

Once again this painter has just enjoyed another stunning vacation. This time out in the ocean, under the waves with a bunch of the jolliest, most colourful friends imaginable. There was much dancing about in the great hula-hulaing kelp forests and larking about with the often dizzy, but dazzling inhabitants. If my picture conveys joy, love, and lightness-of-heart I am content. There is much to be received by just sitting quietly and gently contemplating these potent manifestations of a divine life force that is at once entirely loving and utterly benevolent.

We know that the therapeutic powers of dolphins have been widely researched and there is much evidence of how autistic children and others with physical and emotional problems have been helped by them. We also know, in our heart of hearts, that these friendly angels of the sea carry subtle gifts for us - gifts of vibrant wholeness and joyous well-being.

Size: 90 x 75
Medium: Original acrylic on canvas