Enduring of Suffering

	BELTAINE '93 A loose sinopic life-size study of the sacrificial victim Druid of Lindow Bog and the 240 B.C. Dying Gaul. Painted on May Day eve 1993, in preparation for the paintings - and mass suffering around the world - due in the year ahead. 1993 Oil on canvas 101 x 127 cm
	ART, HOPE, AND MEMORY The Irish poet W. B. Yeates receives three ritual death blows and strangulation of the Druid Lovernius. Tri-chromatic colours mix through the spectrum of mental energy of Cuchulain released. And Sarajevo besieged... 1993 Oil on canvas/collage 111 x 75 cm
	DOODLE DREAMER The smell of gas mask rubber and Druid's arm totem under the protection of a crusader Bible class. Wartime prep school, flying bombs and searching through bombsites (then followed by an adolescent conscription to National Service). 1993 Oil on canvas/collage 110 x 76 cm
	THE LOVERS Helpless sinking in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. U.N. presence insignificant... 1994 Oil on canvas/collage 178 x 123 cm
	SOMAS UNA NACION (We Are a Nation) A tribute to the Basque peoples and their right to Celtic recognition and self government. The Dying Gaul, stiffled in speech and vision - thoughts and words collaged with press media and bandages. The artist born 25 days after Guernica massacre. 1993 Oil on canvas/collage 124 x 144 cm
	TRINITIES 3 x 3 x 3 Rawanda atrocities in 1993 - above Central American police corruption in the nameof Catholicism and the Modern World. The Bog Man, crushed - a trinity in which friend's friends are not one's own friends. 1994 Oil on canvas/collage 165 x 55 cm
	A CHILD OF LLYR Dedicated to the people of East Timor. The Celtic legend of the stepmother who turned the children of Llyr into swans until liberated by St. Patrick. The metamorphosis features gold leaf as in the silver hand, the face golden but downcast, as in the Dying Gaul. 1994 Oil on canvas 180 x 200 cm
	SI DIOS QUIERES DOMINICANAS ! (God Loves You, Dominicans!) The phrase of Labour leader Juan Bosch, while the artist was resident in Dominican Republic during 1970. Children dying in the sugar cane fields, suppressed by non-Spanish-speaking Haitian police, escaping Papa Doc. 1993 Oil on canvas/collage 101 x 50 cm
	TRIPLE DEATH Ireland pinned like a butterfly... by her own convictions. 1994 Oil on canvas 143 x 199 cm
	T'AIMSE 'IM CHODLADH (I Am Asleep And Do Not Waken Me) Modern hectic living and the sufferings within families. Dedicated to my good friend Geoff Wilson and his young family, who bear the loss of a father tragically killed in October '93 - Samian in the Celtic year. 1993 Oil on canvas 200 x 400 cm
	MANANNAN LE PENDU The Tarot 'Hung Man' becomes Manannan McLir, God of Tir nan Og, the Celtic otherworld at the other end of the earth: "His helmet shone like the sun." The arm totem an inverted tricolour of the 1944 French Resistance - crucified by murderous French terrorists through the sinking of the 'Rainbow Warrior' in Auckland harbour. 1994 Oil on canvas/collage 121 x 110 cm
	366 - 2nd MAY 1994 Goya's Third of May 1814 - executions in Madrid by Napoleonic forces - metres away from where the artist later lived. Completed the day before the exhibition's opening in Whangarei - a year and two days from Beltaine. The same figures,the same killing, the same suffering goes on and on... 1994 Oil on canvas 190 x 200 cm

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