PUBLIC & PRIVATE RELIEF COMMISSIONS

Within or related to the themes that I explore I have always made a strand of work which expresses my ideas through sleeping figures. My ‘Sleepers’ are poetic, lyrical and dreamlike relief carvings, usually of a figure within a landscape.

The two panels commission for Wrexham Maelor Hospital started with the given theme of an ancient rhyme ‘The Seven Wonders of Wales’

Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple
Snowdon ’s mountain without its people
Overton Yew trees, Saint Winifride’s Well
Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells

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Wrexham Maelor Hospital NHS Trust 'The Seven Wonders of Wales' (Panel 1), 2006 Oil on Sweet Chestnut 1.5 x 2 m Detail of Panel 1 'The Hart of St. Giles' Wrexham Maelor Hospital NHS Trust 'The Seven Wonders of Wales' (Panel 2), 2006 Oil on Sweet Chestnut 1.5 x 2 m Detail of Panel 2 'St Winifride' North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre NHS Trust, Glan Clwyd. 'Moel Famau', 2000 Oil on Limewood 1.2 x 3 m 'Moel Famau'

'Moel Famau' - detail Mid Essex NHS Trust, Broomfield Hospital 'Dreaming', 2005 Oil on Sweet Chestnut 93.5 x 1.24 m Ashworth Secure Hospital, Maghull. 'Sleeping Heads', 1999 Oil colour on Limewood Approx. 0.5 x 3 m Detail of 'Sleeping Heads', Ashworth Hospital 'Matthew and James' - Diptych. Private Commission, 2006 Oil on Sweet Chestnut. 45 x 40 cm 'James' - detail

'Jack'. Private Commission. 2005 Oil on Sweet Chestnut 45 x 63cm 'La Barquantine Nostromo' Private Commission, 2006 Oil on Limewood 45 x 130 cm 'Amazon and Leaf', 2003 Oil on Mahogany Height 25 x 70.5 cm 'Sleeping Amazon', 2003 Oil Colour and Gold Leaf on Mahogany 28.5 x 37.5cm 'Two Amazons', 2001 Oil Colour and Silver Leaf on Limewood 27 x 65cm

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