Finding Patterns

Adventures of an artist travelling obliquely through science

Earlier paintings, drawings, prints and design projects are here.

Guide to the Particles

Extracts from a new guide to the basic building blocks that make up the Universe; based upon new conventions designed as the basis for large digital prints and as a student pocket book. 2015- 2016.

Guide to the Particles - cover

Sun Paintings

All life on Earth owes itself to the Sun, our nearest star. This series of paintings shares some of the things we know. 2013 - 2014.

Rockets

Banners celebrating discovery. 2014.

SKETCHBOOK

Studies made around the department. 2011-12

ROYAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION

Exhibited at the Royal Society in the 'Beyond Ourselves' Exhibition, 2011.

The things with which we concern ourselves in science

Calculating in the space beyond reality

All matter is the same

The physicist

Starbucks coffee cup holder with scientist's notation

Richard Feynman - Three Extracts - 'The Character of Physical Law'

PRINTS

Lino cut prints made for various projects

A Year

Oil painted dashes on a lino print ground, on paper.

5 x 18 cm.

Ginkgo Leaf

Oil on paper, lino cut print. 10.5 x 14.8 cm.

Schrödinger Equation

Schrödinger Equation

Original artwork design for the giant billboard project - http://www.madecurious.com/

Lino cut on Japanese mulberry paper, 10 x 20 cm

Angels Playing Badminton

Angels Playing Badminton

Lino cut on Japanese mulberry paper, image size - 21.5 x 46 cm

To accompany the words: "A dazzling sight: Angels playing badminton with fairy cakes. And fairies playing badminton with angel cakes. The symmetry of nature was revealed to her; Raising such a smile that all who met her smile smiled back."

Made specially for Natasha Morland's Georgie Project.

Experiment to Measure the Shape of the Electron - Triptych

Experiment to Measure the Shape of the Electron - Triptych

A description of the experiment to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron visualised from three perspectives: the quantum view, the apparatus and the classical picture.

Oil based lino cut print on Japanese mulberry paper, 62 x 57 cm

Sun Cinema Poster

Sun Cinema Poster

Lino cut on Japanese Mulberry paper.

Designed for the Sun Cinema Launch.

Rocket

December 2013 bookmark, to celebrate the adventure of discovery.

Lino cut on Somerset paper, 10 x 25 cm.

Repulsive Theory

Repulsive Theory

Lino cut print on Japanese mulberry paper.

Inspired by Kay Ryan's poem.

Design by Mike Tarbutt.

A Year

Ginkgo Leaf

Schrödinger Equation

Angels Playing Badminton

Experiment to Measure the Shape of the Electron - Triptych

Sun Cinema Poster

Rocket

Repulsive Theory

PAINTINGS ABOUT DISCOVERY

Mostly large oil paintings made before 2011.

Flying machine

Thought experiment

Uncertain outcome

Duality

The breath of an idea

Juicy mango eater

Woman contemplating her potential

The butterfly collector

The poet and the painter

Her garden

'there is always the chance of an unexpected result that will shake the world'

The butterfly collectors