Jimi Hendrix III
encaustic on wood 1995
35" x 23"
One of a series of six images of Jimi Hendrix, taken from rock posters of the 60s.

Eos and Memnon
encaustic on wood 1998
26" x 26"
Eos is goddess of the dawn. Her half mortal son, Memnon, was killed in the Trojan War. The original is Greek black-figured pottery, signed 'Douris'.

Bulls of Sumer
encaustic on wood 1997
5" x 45" x 45"
This hanging piece derives from old Sumer in Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) about five thousand years ago. The sacrificial bulls are borrowed from a temple frieze; the diamond motif, from the inlay on harp soundboxes.

Scythian Standard
encaustic on wood 1996
19" x 30"
The Scythians, though brutal barbarians, were fine artisans. They learned to work gold from their more civilized vassals in Iran, to create their images of wild animals. Being nomads, they kept their art portable and functional.
The original is in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Soundbox for Gilgamesh
encaustic on wood 1998
36" x 14" x 4"
Very old - 2600 BC. Four little plaques from the digs at Ur, depicting Gilgamesh and his animal friends getting ready for a party. These might have decorated the soundbox of a long-disintegrated harp, so my frame, with its tuning pegs, seeks to suggest this.

Sally
encaustic on wood 2003
48" x 13"
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Royal Gazette of 1785, a clipping from the classified page. The schooner (not sloop) advertising "Sally" seems to be an all-purpose illustration for boats of all descriptions; early clip-art, in lead.

Nekhbet
encaustic on wood 1998
39" x 39"
Nekhbet is the vulture goddess of upper Egypt. The original collar, of gold links set with semi-precious stones and coloured glass, was found in Tutankhamen's tomb.

Neferkheprure II
encaustic on wood 1999
24" x 18"
Akhnaton, iconoclast and mad poet - and Pharaoh of Egypt, around 900 BC. His court portraits look very un-Egyptian, and get more and more caricatured as he grows older. This one depicts him in "middle-age" and close to the end of his life.

Brücke Manifesto
encaustic on wood 1999
21" x 11"
Frontispiece of the zine put out by the Brücke group of German painters, early 20th century. The original is woodcut, mine is waxcut.

Akhethotep of Saqqara
encaustic on wood 2005
30" x 19"
From the tomb of Akhethotep, around 2600 BC, at Saqqara, a very early necropolis. The support imitates the breaks in the limestone slab.