After not picking up a brush since my Art A Level days, retirement has given me the opportunity to resurrect my love of painting. I get a huge sense of enjoyment from creating in the post-impressionism style using broad strokes and raw colours. Most of my works are portraits but I also enjoy painting churches and I have been known to clear my basement, cover the whole floor with decorator’s plastic sheets, put down a canvas and get to work on a Jackson Pollock. More recently I’ve started experimenting with the Cubist style and, I must admit, Alberto Giacometti fascinates me.
The Galloping Philippe Mussard
The Galloping Philippe Mussard,
Looked divine in his pink leotard,
Asked for whom did he dress?
“The unwashed and depressed.”
And it cheered him to hear them all laugh.
Zoro
Unfortunate Kip couldn’t save her,
When he ran his Sis through with a sabre,
She was shocked and quite stern,
As it wasn’t his turn,
To play Zorro, the masked crusader!
