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A Game of Croquet
Pitcher-plants were once grown in bulk at Compton Dundon. St. Michael's tower hangs in the sky.
In Private Collection
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Alpine Tor
In Private Collection
Oil on Canvas Board
16” by 20”
2004
Original Painting Sold
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Delajas Tor
Grand-daughter Delaja was instrumental in bringing this image to light.
In Private Collection
Oil on Canvas Board
16&rdqu...
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Flying Rumours
Electricity is two-dimensional here.
Oil on Canvas Board
14” by 18”
1997
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Four Strange Things
The full title is found in Proverbs, Chapter 30: "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand."
Oil o...
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Grey on Grey
Detritus from the Industrial Revolution has accumulated in a small corner of central Somerset.
In Private Collection
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Iron-Age Tor
Here everything is stilted.
Oil on Canvas Board
16” by 20”
1999
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Langport Tor
The Somerset Wassail is set in Emajor - not obvious in the painting because the key signature is not shown. Add four sharps or it will sou...
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Magrittes Stove
The sleeping red king is from Chapter IV of Through the Looking-Glass.
Oil on Canvas Board
14” by 18”
1996
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Night and Day
The Somerset peat-moors, divided by rhines, can be thought of as an inside-out chess-board.
Oil on Canvas
16” by 20”
1996
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Nightfall
For some reason the most popular of the Tor pictures.
In private collection
Oil on Canvas Board
12” by 16”
2000
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Officers in the Rain
This car is provided with a Rain Apron, introduced to the world in 1903 by the Automobile Equipment Company of Indianapolis. The idea didn...
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Picnic-Place for Scientists
The smoke is a quotation from Max Ernst's Here Everything is Floating, a supremely important Surrealist work from 1920.
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Reflection in the Mirror
This painting includes a quotation from an illustration by Lodigensky on the front cover of Scientific American of December 1980; showing the effect o...
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Strangalia
The longicorn beetle Strangalia maculata was found in central Somerset at least as late as 1988.
In Private Collection
Oil on Canvas...
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