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A growing collection from the forth coming book entitled 100 Views of the Tor.
 
 "Descent With Modification"
 
 "Descent With Modification" 
This phrase was used by Charles Darwin instead of the word "evolution" throughout most of The Origin of Species. Oil on Canvas Board 1...

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 "The Thoughts of Youth are Long, Long Thoughts"
 
 "The Thoughts of Youth are Long, Long Thoughts" 
The title is from My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.   Elements of a Western boyhood are collected together mathematically. Oil...

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 A Game of Croquet
 
 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   O...

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 Alpine Tor
 
 Alpine Tor 
In Private Collection   Oil on Canvas Board 16” by 20” 2004   Original Painting Sold Prints and Cards Availa...

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 Anamorphic Weather Station
 
 Anamorphic Weather Station 
This station makes the weather as well as recording it. Oil on Canvas 16” by 20” 2003   If you are interested in buying th...

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 Delajas Tor
 
 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
 
 Flying Rumours 
Electricity is two-dimensional here. Oil on Canvas Board 14” by 18” 1997   If you are interested in buying the original painti...

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 Four Strange Things
 
 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
 
 Grey on Grey 
Detritus from the Industrial Revolution has accumulated in a small corner of central Somerset.    In Private Collection   Oil ...

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 Inside and Outside (log spiral)
 
 Inside and Outside (log spiral) 
Mendip limestone and Fibonacci railings celebrating the Golden Ratio. Oil on Canvas Board 16” by 22” 2003   If you are inter...

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 Iron-Age Tor
 
 Iron-Age Tor 
Here everything is stilted.   Oil on Canvas Board 16” by 20” 1999   If you are interested in buying the original paint...

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 Langport Tor
 
 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
 
 Magrittes Stove 
The sleeping red king is from Chapter IV of Through the Looking-Glass. Oil on Canvas Board 14” by 18” 1996   If you ar...

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 Night and Day
 
 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
 
 Nightfall 
For some reason the most popular of the Tor pictures.   In private collection   Oil on Canvas Board 12” by 16” 2000 &n...

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 Officers in the Rain
 
 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
 
 Picnic-Place for Scientists 
The smoke is a quotation from Max Ernst's Here Everything is Floating, a supremely important Surrealist work from 1920.   Oil on Canvas Board...

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 Reflection in the Mirror
 
 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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 Scholarly Elements in a Landscape
 
 Scholarly Elements in a Landscape 
This is a reworking of a black-and-white cover for Windmill, the Millfield School magazine, in 1976.   Various school departments (art, Engl...

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 Strangalia
 
 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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