These are some of the drawings from a writing/drawing project that I have been working on since the mid 90s; the project is still not complete. These drawings have never been exhibited and they all remain within my personal collection. They are not for sale.

‘too cold for the kids in the mind of the parents’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘was this what THEY meant when they blabbered all biblee about Damascus curtained road conversions’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘welcome to twenty-first century land’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘with nurses hovering’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘see their feathers and see their wings’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘when words were lost then found’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘you’ll find it waiting round some glazed brick corner – knife in hand, spit at the back of its throat’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘where are our monsters now – where are our friends’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘they can die and I will not miss them. quietly or violently, and I will not miss them’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘this was when our heroes were clear-cut, clean-cut, vacuum-packed and child-eyed, wonder ready’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the military, elementary frozen sea that day’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘those six o’clock television forked eyed refugees’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘there’s a blacker balance than prophet’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and the memory of a child is the mark of that civilisation’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the wife that expects nothing’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘so Nick is Jack and John is Kalinovka’s pride’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the echo of the era of the long sung, lang syne, national hero closes’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘there’s a big black dog in the corner of the room that was the engine’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the equation. (realpolitik, philosophy) aesthetic + method = the painting’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘sometimes the getting to out is better than the getting of out’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the engine of his her personal scarecrow’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘that certain unspoken, unholy token that nobody grieves like a mother’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘the dumb flags of paper for the torn dumb bodies’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘reliving black mud drenched horror, day and night terrors’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘pick your subject – theology, anarchy, particle physics – I.T., E.T., tofu foodstuff mechanics’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘pre anti-glory. we’ll crash and burn and you’ll cash and earn’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘sleep was out of the equation – and it was most clearly an equation’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘Our father, Forgive us our fuck-ups, And let us lie well remembered. Amen’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘Oh for the wisdom of the professional classes’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘rest with their children, idealists and fools’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘Odette’s dream – simply easy out of reach. As out of reach as she’s out of touch with her unpresidential lifestyle’, conte and pastel on pape

‘not for them the municipal mental mayhem of low budget theme parks’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘like this time was going to be any more fruitful than the previous’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘like relax is a label I regularly lounge in’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘Odette has the easy and simple dream of not being on the bus’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘like aural static accidental smack-headgunshot wounds’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘looking for perfection, in a world of carnage and absolute terror’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘master of your own fate – dog food of the gods’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘lashed to wire like rags in the wind’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘his years old boy’s fantasy’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘no family and no friends bar those with the same faded imaginary scar’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘fuck me… a panda in a spacesuit’, conte and pastel on paper, 100 x 60cm

‘no sugar, no water, absinthe without leave’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘from afar’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘in a bull market, like Goya, I saw this’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘Good for me while I queued and god for me while I signed’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘for an atheist it was quite a moment’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘feel my breath – slipping out’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘C our Elise tells her priest she’s a good Catholic’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘come home you mothers, come home’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘fear looks like sorrow when the screaming has stopped’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘et obsolete comme moi’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘because we all need a man with a plan for an escape’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘as they say in media land’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘another brick wall of misguided optimism’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘But that was such a distant pleasured past, when the son was last and the heart was touched like the sun touches’, conte and pastel on paper,

‘at school they taught you lithium was a metal’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and what can you say – but sorry’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘burnt so bright and damned to be ignored’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘converting to the preached and preaching to the coveted’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘but now we’re not just witness to our barbarity we’ve got pay to view’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘between the Oscar winners and the Daily Sinners’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘but I’ve always been more with Mister London’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘because I choose it to be that way, because I can’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and you’ve realized, YOU’VE REALISED, your doctor is just… another… dealer’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘angry like saturday nights’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and sorrow wrings its sorry hands and bends them cuplike upwards’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and the shopkeeper shrinks as the first cross her threshold’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and this is the form – in the void’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and then her heart gave out so loud’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and the misery’s a bastard comfort’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘All symbols and cymbals. Blood and oil. Dirt and bone. You know this hate’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and it minds me think of purity’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and she confesses to Roman Father that Anglican Mother makes her feel like Saint Theresa’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and here comes a scar’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and the silent scream and the audience applaud the hammer party’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and a mother is screaming grief for a child that won’t be born’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and the lovers of left right and centre lay design on more horror’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘and I am the fist, I am always the fist’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘aimless aims and pointless teeth’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘a little bit more hate’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘a beginning, a middle and an end,’ conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

‘all black and white thievery – one for sorrow, two for sorrow’, conte and pastel on paper, 30 x 40cm

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