SIREN
SIREN

A modern interpretation of the Greek myth of Odysseus and the Sirens. Odysseus tied to the mast shown as a figure bound in a chest bandage; his crew who bound their heads and blocked their ears from the Siren song depicted as men with bandaged heads part instruction diagram 'How to Bandage Your Own Head'. The winged Sirens shown as nurses with scissor form bodies. The mariners vessel depicted as a hospital bed.

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Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body
Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body

Oil on canvas

130cmx200cm

2010

Siren exhibition window
Siren exhibition window

Tripp Gallery 2018

Bandaging Your Own Head
Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

150cmx100cm

2017

Nurse With Syringe
Nurse With Syringe

Oil and marble dust on canvas

200cmx130cm

2010

Broken Right Arm
Broken Right Arm

ink charcoal and emulsion on paper

A1

1986

Siren
Siren

Oil on canvas

93cmx53cm

2018

Recovery
Recovery

Oil on canvas board

61cmx91cm

2018

Three Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head
Three Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

90cmx60cm

2016/17

Five Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head
Five Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

90cmx60cm

2016/17

Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body
Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body

Oil on canvas

200cmx130cm

2011

Nurse with syringe
Nurse with syringe

160cmx120cm

Oil on canvas

2012

show9.jpg
Bandaging A Body With A Bedsheet
Bandaging A Body With A Bedsheet

Oil on canvas

116cmx89cm

2018

Nurse at Rest
Nurse at Rest

Oil on canvas

116cmx89cm

2020

Removing a figure from the picture
Removing a figure from the picture

oil on canvas

2016

How To Carry: Ambulance
How To Carry: Ambulance

Oil on canvas board

91cmx61cm

2018

Welcome we are very pleased to meet you
Welcome we are very pleased to meet you

200cmx130cm

2012

Oil on canvas

show8.jpg
Bandaging a body with a bedsheet
Bandaging a body with a bedsheet

Oil on canavas

160cmx120cm

2017/18

Staunching a Chest Wound With a Bed Sheet
Staunching a Chest Wound With a Bed Sheet

Oil on canvas

130cmx200cm

2011

show2.jpg
show3.jpg
show6.jpg
Broken left
Broken left

oil on canvas

2016

Bed
Bed

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bed
Bed

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bed (final stage)
Bed (final stage)

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bandaging Your Own Head
Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

150cmx100cm

2017

nurse 1.jpg
Burns_Chris_20.jpeg
18 nurses
18 nurses

ink on paper

a4

2024

gloves.jpg
 Part biogrophy and part art iconography, I have repeatedly returned to the studies of the nurse and baby, which originally came from medical books on 'How to take care of baby'. The biographical element being artist as a baby and my mother who was a

Part biogrophy and part art iconography, I have repeatedly returned to the studies of the nurse and baby, which originally came from medical books on 'How to take care of baby'. The biographical element being artist as a baby and my mother who was a nurse. The Iconography of the Madonna and child here represented as a surrogate carer and infant, the Red Cross becoming a symbol foreshadowing the infants fate.

portrait of the Artist  and Mother
portrait of the Artist and Mother

150cmx120cm

Oil on linen

2023

Nurse and baby: Dressing Baby
Nurse and baby: Dressing Baby

120cmx160cm

oil on canvas

Nurse and baby: How Not to Hold baby
Nurse and baby: How Not to Hold baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Taking Care of Baby: How not to Hold Baby
Taking Care of Baby: How not to Hold Baby

Oil on canvas

150cmx120cm

2020

How not to hold baby IV
How not to hold baby IV

Oil on canvas

160cmx210cm

2023

Changing Baby
Changing Baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Bottle Feeding Baby
Bottle Feeding Baby

Acrylic and ink on paper

210cmx140cm

2021

Taking care of baby: How to hold baby
Taking care of baby: How to hold baby

A3

Acrylic ink

2022

Bottle feeding baby
Bottle feeding baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Taking care of baby: How not to hold
Taking care of baby: How not to hold

A3

Acrylic ink

2022

Changing Baby
Changing Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Nurse and Baby. Sponging Baby
Nurse and Baby. Sponging Baby

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2017

Nurse and Baby. Feeding Baby
Nurse and Baby. Feeding Baby

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2017

Nurse and baby
Nurse and baby

160cmx80cm

Oil on canvas

2000

Nurse with scissor form body no.1
Nurse with scissor form body no.1

150cmx120cm

Oil on canvas

2007

How To Wash Baby
How To Wash Baby

Charcoal chalk on paper

A1

1997

Siren
Siren

Ink on paper

A3

2010

How Not to Hold Baby
How Not to Hold Baby

Charcoal chalk on paper

A1

1997

Nurse with Syringe
Nurse with Syringe

acrylic and ink on paper

83cmx63cm

2021

Healing Witch
Healing Witch

60cmx120cm

ink and oil paint

2024

IMG_1590.jpg
nurse and baby mixed media on paper.jpg
Nurse with scissor form body
Nurse with scissor form body

A3

ink on paper

2016

bandaged head2small.jpg
Taking Care of Baby
Taking Care of Baby

75 studies

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Entertaining Baby
Entertaining Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Changing Baby
Changing Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

0B1A1544.JPG
safety pin.jpg
Nurse and baby.2016.jpg
NURSE & BABY
NURSE & BABY

ink, graphite and blood on paper

40cmx30cm

2010

Nurse
Nurse

One of original 30 nurse studies made on the blank reverse side of medical lithographs of skin diseases.

ink and gouache

1990

Nurse with scissor form body
Nurse with scissor form body

Oil on canvas

160cmx120cm

2010

Changing baby
Changing baby

150cmx100cm

oil on linen

2020-23

Changing baby
Changing baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Removing Something Degenerate
Removing Something Degenerate

Etching and dry point

2012

Siren
Siren

Oil on canvas

93cmx53cm

2017

Nurse with syringe
Nurse with syringe

woodcut

2024

Nurse smoking
Nurse smoking

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Removing a Figure From The Picture
Removing a Figure From The Picture

Oil on linen

116cmx65cm.

2017

changing b.jpg
Surgeon
Surgeon

Etching

2014

Bandaging A Chest Wound With A Bed Sheet
Bandaging A Chest Wound With A Bed Sheet

ink

1984

scissors ink and paint smaller.jpg
Beds
Beds

ink 1984

Feeding Baby
Feeding Baby

Oil on canvas

130cmx160cm

2022

Making taking care of baby (The Anointment)
SIREN
done waterhouse.jpg
Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body
Siren exhibition window
Bandaging Your Own Head
Nurse With Syringe
Broken Right Arm
Siren
Recovery
Three Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head
Five Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head
Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body
Nurse with syringe
show9.jpg
Bandaging A Body With A Bedsheet
Nurse at Rest
Removing a figure from the picture
How To Carry: Ambulance
Welcome we are very pleased to meet you
show8.jpg
Bandaging a body with a bedsheet
Staunching a Chest Wound With a Bed Sheet
show2.jpg
show3.jpg
show6.jpg
Broken left
Bed
Bed
Bed (final stage)
Bandaging Your Own Head
nurse 1.jpg
Burns_Chris_20.jpeg
18 nurses
gloves.jpg
 Part biogrophy and part art iconography, I have repeatedly returned to the studies of the nurse and baby, which originally came from medical books on 'How to take care of baby'. The biographical element being artist as a baby and my mother who was a
portrait of the Artist  and Mother
Nurse and baby: Dressing Baby
Nurse and baby: How Not to Hold baby
Taking Care of Baby: How not to Hold Baby
How not to hold baby IV
Changing Baby
Bottle Feeding Baby
Taking care of baby: How to hold baby
Bottle feeding baby
Taking care of baby: How not to hold
Changing Baby
Nurse and Baby. Sponging Baby
Nurse and Baby. Feeding Baby
Nurse and baby
Nurse with scissor form body no.1
How To Wash Baby
Siren
How Not to Hold Baby
Nurse with Syringe
Healing Witch
IMG_1590.jpg
nurse and baby mixed media on paper.jpg
Nurse with scissor form body
bandaged head2small.jpg
Taking Care of Baby
Entertaining Baby
Changing Baby
0B1A1544.JPG
safety pin.jpg
Nurse and baby.2016.jpg
NURSE & BABY
Nurse
Nurse with scissor form body
Changing baby
Changing baby
Removing Something Degenerate
Siren
Nurse with syringe
Nurse smoking
Removing a Figure From The Picture
changing b.jpg
Surgeon
Bandaging A Chest Wound With A Bed Sheet
scissors ink and paint smaller.jpg
Beds
Feeding Baby
Making taking care of baby (The Anointment)
SIREN

A modern interpretation of the Greek myth of Odysseus and the Sirens. Odysseus tied to the mast shown as a figure bound in a chest bandage; his crew who bound their heads and blocked their ears from the Siren song depicted as men with bandaged heads part instruction diagram 'How to Bandage Your Own Head'. The winged Sirens shown as nurses with scissor form bodies. The mariners vessel depicted as a hospital bed.

Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body

Oil on canvas

130cmx200cm

2010

Siren exhibition window

Tripp Gallery 2018

Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

150cmx100cm

2017

Nurse With Syringe

Oil and marble dust on canvas

200cmx130cm

2010

Broken Right Arm

ink charcoal and emulsion on paper

A1

1986

Siren

Oil on canvas

93cmx53cm

2018

Recovery

Oil on canvas board

61cmx91cm

2018

Three Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

90cmx60cm

2016/17

Five Easy Steps To Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

90cmx60cm

2016/17

Reclining Nurse with Scissor Form Body

Oil on canvas

200cmx130cm

2011

Nurse with syringe

160cmx120cm

Oil on canvas

2012

Bandaging A Body With A Bedsheet

Oil on canvas

116cmx89cm

2018

Nurse at Rest

Oil on canvas

116cmx89cm

2020

Removing a figure from the picture

oil on canvas

2016

How To Carry: Ambulance

Oil on canvas board

91cmx61cm

2018

Welcome we are very pleased to meet you

200cmx130cm

2012

Oil on canvas

Bandaging a body with a bedsheet

Oil on canavas

160cmx120cm

2017/18

Staunching a Chest Wound With a Bed Sheet

Oil on canvas

130cmx200cm

2011

Broken left

oil on canvas

2016

Bed

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bed

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bed (final stage)

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2016

Bandaging Your Own Head

Oil on canvas

150cmx100cm

2017

18 nurses

ink on paper

a4

2024

Part biogrophy and part art iconography, I have repeatedly returned to the studies of the nurse and baby, which originally came from medical books on 'How to take care of baby'. The biographical element being artist as a baby and my mother who was a nurse. The Iconography of the Madonna and child here represented as a surrogate carer and infant, the Red Cross becoming a symbol foreshadowing the infants fate.

portrait of the Artist and Mother

150cmx120cm

Oil on linen

2023

Nurse and baby: Dressing Baby

120cmx160cm

oil on canvas

Nurse and baby: How Not to Hold baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Taking Care of Baby: How not to Hold Baby

Oil on canvas

150cmx120cm

2020

How not to hold baby IV

Oil on canvas

160cmx210cm

2023

Changing Baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Bottle Feeding Baby

Acrylic and ink on paper

210cmx140cm

2021

Taking care of baby: How to hold baby

A3

Acrylic ink

2022

Bottle feeding baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Taking care of baby: How not to hold

A3

Acrylic ink

2022

Changing Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Nurse and Baby. Sponging Baby

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2017

Nurse and Baby. Feeding Baby

Oil on canvas

200cmx100cm

2017

Nurse and baby

160cmx80cm

Oil on canvas

2000

Nurse with scissor form body no.1

150cmx120cm

Oil on canvas

2007

How To Wash Baby

Charcoal chalk on paper

A1

1997

Siren

Ink on paper

A3

2010

How Not to Hold Baby

Charcoal chalk on paper

A1

1997

Nurse with Syringe

acrylic and ink on paper

83cmx63cm

2021

Healing Witch

60cmx120cm

ink and oil paint

2024

Nurse with scissor form body

A3

ink on paper

2016

Taking Care of Baby

75 studies

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Entertaining Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Changing Baby

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

NURSE & BABY

ink, graphite and blood on paper

40cmx30cm

2010

Nurse

One of original 30 nurse studies made on the blank reverse side of medical lithographs of skin diseases.

ink and gouache

1990

Nurse with scissor form body

Oil on canvas

160cmx120cm

2010

Changing baby

150cmx100cm

oil on linen

2020-23

Changing baby

210cmx160cm

oil on canvas

2023

Removing Something Degenerate

Etching and dry point

2012

Siren

Oil on canvas

93cmx53cm

2017

Nurse with syringe

woodcut

2024

Nurse smoking

ink on paper

30cmx40cm

2021

Removing a Figure From The Picture

Oil on linen

116cmx65cm.

2017

Surgeon

Etching

2014

Bandaging A Chest Wound With A Bed Sheet

ink

1984

Beds

ink 1984

Feeding Baby

Oil on canvas

130cmx160cm

2022

Making taking care of baby (The Anointment)
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