Circus 1 The Dream

collage, acrylic, ink on clayboard 12 X 12 inches







"Reality is wrong, dreams are real."
Tupak Shakur

Circus 2 TheWish

acrylic, collage, pen on board 12" X 12"

Circus 3 Leaving Home

acrylic, collage, ink, board 12 X 12 inches

Circus 4 Belonging

acrylic, collage on clayboard, 12"X12"

Long-suffering Hearts

acrylic, collage, ink on clalyboard, 12 x 12 inches







"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy."
Arthur Helps

The Prickly Thorn

 acrylic and collage on board 18 X 24 inches








"The prickly thorn often produces tender roses"
Ovid 43 BC.

Illusions

acrylic and collage on board 10 X 16 inches

Kahlia

acrylic, collage 13 x 18 inches





"May the rain fall soft upon your face, and until
we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his
hand, may God grant you always a sunbeam to
warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering
angel so nothing can harm you."
Irish blessing 

Complicity

acrylic, collage, ink  7 X 7 inches

Dreams

acrylic, collage, coloured pencil on paper 13 X 18 inches







"If I knew you and you knew me, 

And both of us could clearly see,

I'm sure that we would differ less,

And clasp our hands in friendliness".

Joaquin Miller  1840

The End is the Beginning

13 X 22 inches, acrylic, collage, ink

"The end is where we start from, and to make an end is to make a beginning.  The beginning is often the end..."

T.S.Eliot

The Fall of Lucifer

acrylic, ink, collage 16 X 24 inches







"A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.  The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.  Here at least we shall be free.  Here we may reign secure and in my choyce to reign is worth ambition though in Hell ...better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n." 
Paradise Lost, Milton