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Assorted Daubs

Well, after much dragging of heels, this page, which dates back to 2000, has finally had a tentative upgrade so it looks equally rubbish on those mobile things the kids have now, as well as the steam computator on your friendly-neighbourhood artist's desk.

Most of these are for sale, by the way. Do contact me if you're interested in acquiring an original Lowe. They could be worthless priceless in years to come.

So, what have we got for you? We have a fascinating wee series, maybe with more to come, of paintings of West Lothian's Oil Shale Bings, followed for no good reason, by what I've called Love's Residue, portrayals of lost love. (All together now: Aaaaah!)
OK, put the violins away and consider the wastebin of art which I call my Odds and Sods section. Stuff from the early 1980s to whenever I gave it all up as a bad job. During which time I created a whole set of variations on the LOVE paintings of Robert Indiana.
Finally we go into three dimensions for the Sculptures and Installations, including the Shreddies series of pieces done in paper shredders. Maybe 3D should have its own page, like drawings, photographs and conceptual art — but, for now at least, I say "sod that for a game of soldiers".

But we start with some pictures that came about when a vivacious Chinese music teacher came to stay, in between travelling around the UK and Europe a bit...

Jing Things
Paintings and posters inspired by the visit to Scotland of Jing Gao of Hangzhou in 2017

Bringing in the Sheaves I
"Jing Reaps the Harvest"
gouache on paper 28x20
Bringing in the Sheaves II
gouache on paper 28x20
prints available £20
Walking to Assisi, Nov 17
oil on canvas 84x60
(awaiting improvement
& carrying to China)
Staring at the Sea, Apr 17
Jing at Moher
oil on canvas 30x30
private coll, Hangzhou

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Bing Sings Things, 2015

The 'bings' of West Lothian are waste heaps from shale oil extraction, which began in the 1850s and continued until the 1960s, the world's first large-scale oil refining industry, and a forerunner of modern 'fracking'.
The iron content of the waste causes the distinctive reddish tinge, reminiscent of Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in Australia.

Greendykes Bing, Broxburn
oil on canvas 40x100
Winchburgh Bing & Niddry Castle
acrylic/canvas 30x30
private coll
Five Sisters Bing, West Calder
oil on canvas 40x100

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Love's Residue
To See Oursel's as Ithers See Us
oil on canvas (150x75)
September 2013
"It's just a photograph of someone that I knew"
oil on canvas, 2011 30x30 nfs
Glass Half Full, 2013
oil on canvas 30x30 nfs
Glass Half Empty, 2013
oil on canvas 30x30 nfs
Still room (in Paris), 2014
oil on canvas 30x30 nfs
La Ducha a la Vera Ronda, Spain, 2004
pastel 53x74 nfs
Sitting on the Sea, Zoe at Colonsay, 2005
acrylic on canvas April 2017 21x30

DaiZo no Keiko, 2004
oil on canvas 45x60 nfs
"Tropical Shower", Phuket 1988
pastel 53x74 nfs
"La Rottura di Veneri", 1990
(apologies to Degas)
pastel 74x53 nfs

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Odds and Sods
four decades of trying

A Bend In The Trent, Dec '07
oil on canvas 75x50
"Pho Trader" (Jodie Nguyen), 2011
pastel 48x63, private coll, Edinburgh
Pure Raspberry" (Kasia), 2008
oil on canvas 25x30, private coll, Berlin
Raka — oil sketch, 2011
oil on canvas 20x25
Two Naked Thai Women (detail), 2003
oil on canvas 60x120
DaiZo no Rumi, 2007
ink and wash 20x30
Pente Nueve, Ronda, Spain, 1991
ink and wash 21x14
Elizabeth, 1990
pastel 74x53
Obelisk and Tangerine
(After misheard Matisse), 1998
oil on canvas 52x68, private coll Switzerland
Mother and Children (after Picasso), 1987
oil on canvas 44x55
Fuego Bar y Tapas, (after Manet), 1983
oil on canvas 90x60, private coll, London
Louise O'Murphy (after Boucher), 1982
oil on canvasboard 70x60
Hatsuko (a Punt on the Cam), 1999
oil on canvasboard 28x22, private coll, Tokyo
Flats. Bethnal Green Rd, London, 1990
watercolour 60x40, private coll
Lucy, aged 4, Leicester Market, 1986
pastel 53x74, private coll
Gades va biquini, 2000
oil on canvas 27x35, private coll
Gades va supermercado, 2000
oil on canvas 27x35, private coll
(read about my year in Cádiz here)

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Variations on Robert Indiana's LOVE paintings, 2007
(highlights — see the whole set here — all acrylic on canvas 30x30)

Self Portrait
Love
Hebrew
private coll, Jerusalem
Homage to Briget Riley
digital giclée
Swahili
private coll, Edinburgh
Self Pity
Cynicism
private coll, Jerusalem
Greek

to see sketch versions of the whole set,
CLICK HERE

To see the catalogue for the Edinburgh Festival Exhibition from 2008
CLICK HERE

Are you a gallery? If you'd like to host an exhibition and sell the results,
get in touch.

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Sculptures and Installations

Disbelief of Suspension, 2002
Picture Hanger, cord 4x6
Recuerdos de vacaciones del calvo
complementary combs, 2002
private coll, London
Polled Hereford (after Pablo)
bicycle saddle, 1992
Venny, 1983
ciment fondue
Homage to Martin Creed
mixed media
in-office installation
Goodman's Fields 2001
Woodwork I
pine timber
temporary installation 2006

"Shreddies"
manual paper shredder installations
(click on the titles for the shredded texts)

#1: Slaughter of Innocence
Catalan nativity scene,
Matthew 2:18, various languages 2002
#2: The Incomprehensibility of Damien Hirst in the Mind of Someone Uneducated
modelling clay, photoprint 2002
#3: Data Protection Act
printout, shredded paper 2003
#4: "Always our old feuillage!"
clay, plant pots, sweetcorn, news text 2003
private coll, London
#5: Guacomole
guacomole, photos of ingredients 2003
temporary work for show opening, Mexico Gallery Hampstead

#6: "I Don't Care"
mixed media 2003

#7: Because You're Worth It!
clay, photos, printout 2008

#8: Cemetery
discarded copies of I Love You from Miffy work in progress 2016
Bitesize Shreddie #1:
Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!
Japanese Spring beans and sugar demons 2003
Bitesize Shreddie #2:
Total Penetration
'dick pic' and 'slot shot' 2003
Bitesize Shreddie #3:
Spectral Analysis
paper 2003

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