Some of the following images are finished paintings and others are not. Most of them were done after retirement in 2017. Others are older. I have included some paintings at different stages to try to convey something of the creative process.
I self-published a book in May 2023. It is in many ways a memoir but also contains some of my paintings. If you wish to buy a copy contact me on parry.dj275@gmail.com and let me have your address. The book is £10 per copy and £3 package and postage.
My work is mainly painted in acrylic, with some oils in older work and water colour very rarely…..
MIGRATION THEME – June 2025 (not finished)……………………………………..
GAZA theme..……………………………………………………………………….
and before that – Syria : YARMOUK with details below
Left to right: T’Boli Woman; Sudan Refugees (unfinished); Portrait of an older man –
Below: A new theme……………..Windy Corner, Jutland 1916
MINERS’ STRIKE IMPROVISATION ( based on Kandinsky “Cossacks”)
RED MOLLY (below)
Frank Auerbach inspired…..
COAL MINING THEME…………….
Now for something different ……on the beach, Cornwall
Below: started in November 2024 – adapted from woodcuts by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German Expressionist c 1920)
Not copies… but leaning heavily on the originals
Goya in colour….
An old theme for me… Miners’ Strike
Women against Pit Closures 1984
There’s more…………
Dawn in the coal strike – unfinished
Above: David Jones’s funeral 1984 ( with reflection.)
Working on Women Against Pit Closures…………
Back to the pit theme…………………
Pit Brow lasses (below)
And earlier in the process…below
Leaving the coal theme…………………………
Some experiments with hand built clay –
PEAK DISTRICT ROCK FORMATIONS…………………..
Other landscapes
Six Counties – early 1980s below
COVID DAYS…..
Moving on……..
Janis and Amy.…..below (plus ‘Ruth Langmore‘)
German Expressionist based work (again)
BECKMANN (based on woodcut portrait)
After Kandinsky
A version of a TURNER ….
Back to rocks….
Beeches: Limb Brook Valley
Portraits ….GREAT GRAND PARENTS …..
Rosa Luxembourg; Durutti
Acknowledgments – The sharp-eyed/art historians out there may spot some familiar aspects to these paintings. The ‘sources’ are:
- Dix
- Century of Struggle (NUM) – Pit Brow Lasses
- Goya – Disasters of War (Three paintings of etchings)
- Kandinsky (Three paintings)
- Keinholz
- Kirchner
- Schmidt-Rottluff
- Kollwitz
- Macke
- Magnum Photo – 1936
- Turner
- Yamouk photo (Palestinians in Syria)
- Constable
- Munch
- Klee
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