Artworks

I create most of my own artwork; sometimes it is a collage of images taken from different sources; my own drawings, public domain stuff and photos I've taken on my camera and 'tweaked'. The resulting composites are technically copyright because all contain significant original material generated by myself. However, I am a storyteller not a commercial artist. My artwork is driven by two things: I like to design my own covers and I like to screenplay my stories inside my head.... Plus drawing them is fun.

Like most people I can understand things better with a picture in my mind. Even a very simple diagram can help me see things more clearly. The same is true of my stories, I see the characters and locations in my head: by that I don’t mean that I have a fully formed picture of them, they are more avatars or homologues of an idea. Most of them are used to flesh out the stories in my mind just as the phrase; “there was a steaming mug of coffee on the table” can create a millions of different images all having some intrinsic aspects of ‘cupness’ ‘heat’ and ‘tableness’.
However sometimes a place or an artefact calls out for a harder pictorial definition; it is much easier to explain something to someone if you’ve seen it.
This is what happens to me sometimes; I get the idea for an artefact but then the little wyrm inside my head starts to say… well if it has to do that, it must look like this… and   ...if this is the result then to create it, this part must interact with that part…
Then I simply have to try to draw it. Fortunately for me there are wonderful tools out there that allow me to draw, not only in two dimensions but in three and with full colour and animation. Some examples are shown in the Gallery and How I do It pages

Not everything can be reduced to a picture or diagram. Some subjects, mathematics for example, can, at times, only be appreciated for their abstract meaning. Others, semiconductor electronics for example, are better described by the phrase; “they work because that’s how the mathematics says that they should work and, lo and behold, that’s what they do.” Still others come under the heading of true abstraction; faith, imagination, time, humanity… I would not even attempt to pictorialise these.

“Those,” as they say, “will be left as an exercise for the reader”.