Cracking the code

I paint in code and leave it to the viewer to crack the code, as in the detail shown below. "It is an art in which the artist's skill in suggesting must be matched with the public's skill at taking hints. The literal-minded Philistine is excluded from this closed circle." (E. H. Gombrich Art & Illusion) 

For the last month I've been taxing my octogenarian dyslexic brain with a different kind of coding. That being, setting up the 80,000 words of my book A Work In Progress in readiness for publishing. For that task I'm a visually-minded Philistine who is excluded from the ranks of the computer savvy.

 

 Designing the book cover was the easy bit.

The Nude and the Lewd

 

Above is a drawing I made of Eve for my vision of a Caribbean Garden of Eden.

Below is a press photo taken at the British Virgin Island's Independence Celebrations.

Cry the Beloved Country.

Growing Old Disgracefully

Nuances of the nude

To paraphrase Lewis Carroll’s Father William, in my efforts to capture the nuances of the nude I’ve, figuratively speaking, persisted standing on my head long past my three score years and ten. In my youth I feared it might get me a bad name, but now that I know I've got one, I do it again and again.