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Entrance of the Gladiators

Recent Works

A rotating selection of works from not too long ago. Most are available as prints - some have appeared as book covers or advertisements. 

Recent Works

A rotating selection of works from not too long ago. Most are available as prints - some have appeared as book covers or advertisements. 

Entrance of the Gladiators

Entrance of the Gladiators

"Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters. 
I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, called you children. "

-Shakespeare

4/5 available. Digital print.

Endless Forms #2

Endless Forms #2

​"It may come as a surprise, but the genetic ingredients that assemble you are strikingly similar to those that assemble a fly. So why do you and a fly look so different as adults?" 

-Cliff Tabin

​Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Paper prints available in this edition: 4 remaining.

The Tangled Bank

The Tangled Bank

“...and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. . . " 

- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 41 remaining.

Shine A Light

Shine A Light

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” 

- Albert Einstein

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 46 remaining.

Introducing Darwin

Introducing Darwin

Poster designed for a series of talks celebrating Charles Darwin's birthday. 

Digital print (digital duotone). Canvas and metal prints available in this edition (with and without series information): 22 remaining.

Growing Up with Pigs

Growing Up with Pigs

Cover art for the book by Harol Marshall.

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas and metal prints available. 10 remaining.

Doors of Mud-Cracked Houses

Doors of Mud-Cracked Houses

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

-Sir Isaac Newton

Digital print (oil paint, digital photography and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 50 remaining.

The Last Fingers of Leafs #1

The Last Fingers of Leafs #1

"The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils, it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark ..."

- Simon Conway Morris

Digital print (3D modelling based on CT data). Canvas prints available in this edition: 24 remaining.

A Trial of a Thousand Years

A Trial of a Thousand Years

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

-Anton Chekhov

Digital print (3D modelling based on CT data). Canvas prints available in this edition: 24 remaining.

Astonishing Paris

Astonishing Paris

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

Digital print (3D modelling based on CT data). Linen paper prints available in this edition: 25 remaining.

The Paving Stone

The Paving Stone

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

Digital print (3D modelling based on CT data). Canvas and linen paper prints available in this edition: 32 remaining.

The Winds, The Waves, The Tides, and Gravity

The Winds, The Waves, The Tides, and Gravity

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

Digital print (3D modelling based on CT data). Canvas and linen paper prints available in this edition: 20 remaining.

A Crack in Everything

A Crack in Everything

"They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there's a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Digital print (Oil paint, 3D modelling based on CT data). Canvas prints available in this edition: 9 remaining.

Smoky Hill Chalk

Smoky Hill Chalk

"I enter the world called real as one enters a mist."

- Julien Green

Digital print (Digital paint, 3D modelling based on photographs,). Linen paper prints available in this edition: 97 remaining.

To See the Elephant

To See the Elephant

"I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one."

- David Attenborough

Digital print (3D modelling based on skeletal data). Canvas prints available in this edition: 11 remaining.

The Sophistication of the Wise Primitive

The Sophistication of the Wise Primitive

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

- Edmund Burke

Digital print (High dynamic range-processed CT scan). Canvas prints available in this edition: 6 remaining.

I Can See Your House From Here

I Can See Your House From Here

"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. "

- Neil Armstrong

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 38 remaining.

 

Fire From Below

Fire From Below

"Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them."

- John McPhee

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 48 remaining.

What We Give Up

What We Give Up

"If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone."
 

- John McPhee

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 42 remaining.

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Shackleton

Shackleton

"We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

- Ernest Shackleton

Digital print (oil paint, polarized light microphotography, and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 48 remaining.

On A Clear Day

On A Clear Day

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time."

- Thomas Carlyle

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 44 remaining.

 

Fire of Unknown Origin

Fire of Unknown Origin

"Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away ... like lesser birds on the four winds, like silver scrapes in May."

- Blue Öyster Cult

Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Metal prints available in this edition: 23 remaining.

Endless Forms #1

Endless Forms #1

"The key to understanding form is development, the process through which a single-celled egg gives rise to a complex, multi-billion-celled animal. This amazing spectacle stood as one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology for nearly two centuries. And development is intimately connected to evolution because it is through changes in embryos that changes in form arise."

-Sean Carroll
Digital print (oil paint and digital media). Canvas prints available in this edition: 5 remaining.

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