Artwork
Despite having made my living as an artist of one form or another for most of my life it has taken me very many years to actually own the title.
I began life as an actor and later combined that with designing sets and costumes for the theatre. There was a time when I made hand carved jewellery from bone, wood and stone and at one point produced hand coloured fabric for designer clothing.
I have for the most part made my living as a sculptor for the last twenty years or so. I am glad to say that I am now back to work and am very busy but for the last couple of years I have not really been working at all so I will add photographs here of my new work as it is finished. There were a few years when I was busy spending a lot of my time researching and writing a novel but for the last five years or so the muse simply escaped me and my pension was good enough to allow me to be a Paros reprobate and get over my divorce. It is likely to take me many years more if I ever get back to writing the book to get it finished and find out if it’s any good.
Most of the work on this page is very old and although a lot of it is painting I have never considered myself to be much of a painter. The photographs that I had of the majority of my sculptures have been sadly lost. The few bits and pieces that I still have at home are for the most part small items that I have kept because they have a certain sentimental value.
Plato (c427Bc – 347Bc)
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What in the virtue of a chair makes it a chair? Although there are many different kinds of chairs if the term “chair” is to have a meaning there must be something in common to all chairs that an artisan must have knowledge of if s/he is to fabricate a chair. This thing that is common to all chairs that all particular chairs “participate in” is called the form of the chair or “chairness”. Imagine that because of some great catastrophe all actual chairs in the world were destroyed. Even if all actual chairs were to be destroyed this would not mean that the form of chairness had been destroyed for it would still be possible for a craftsman to make a chair. So we might be tempted to say that the form of the chair exists in the mind of the craftsman. However three things might prevent us from saying this.
What if all the craftsmen who knew about chairness died? Would chairness then cease to exist? It would if the form of chairness existed only in the minds of the craftsmen. However would it not be possible for someone years later to create a chair? For this to be possible the form of the chair must exist somewhere apart from any particular chair and apart from any individual person´s idea of a chair. The trouble with chairs and individual people´s ideas of chairs is that they exist in the world of becoming. That is to say specific chairs that are made of wood, steel, etc. come into and pass out of existence. They can be destroyed. The same is true of the ideas of chairs that people have, people die. Because actual chairs and the ideas of chairs can be destroyed they are less perfect than the form of chair which does not come into or pass out of existence. So the form of chairness cannot exist in the form of becoming, rather it exists in the world of pure being, a world that is more perfect than the material world. It is this world that the philosopher visits in Socrates’ allegory of the cave. So for any determinate thing there must be some form in virtue of which that thing is what it is. The form is separate from any particular instance of it; the form is not any particular chair, the form is separate from any individual´s mental image of a chair. The form is superior to a particular thing or any mental image of that thing because it is perfect and because it does not deteriorate or cease to be. The Republic |
Self Portrait - Gouache 1991
Self Portrait - Gouache 1991
Self Portrait - Gouache 1991
Self Portrait - Pastel 1989
Terry - Gouache 1991
Lilla Lydia - Gouache 1998
Design For a Batik Silk Shirt - Pastel 1988
Head - Concrete 1994
Unfinished Totem - Wood 1995
Head - Wood 1996
Paperweight - Stonegypsum 1994
Horse - Wood 1996
Detail Horse - Wood 1996
Curious - Bronze 1994
Finnish Lion - Bronze 2008
Finnish Lion - Concrete 2008
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Head - Concrete 2013
Priest - Concrete 2016
Horses Head - Concrete 2016
Unfinished Head - Marble 2015
Unfinished Head - Marble 2015
Renovation of Sankt Erik Head in Fleminggatan Stockholm - Stucco and Gold Leaf - 2011
Cane - Moose Antler - 2016
Cane - Bone 2017
Cane - Bone 2017 Detail
The Broken Man - Wood 1992
Keyring - Bone 1993
Necklace - Wood 1992
Earrings - Wood 1992
Earing Design 2013
Earing - Gold - Metalwork by Wendy Pratt 2013
Earing - Gold - Metalwork by Wendy Pratt 2013
Earring Design 2013
Kastro Earrings- Silver - Metalwork by Wendy Pratt 2013
Metaxa Earring Design 2013
Ouso Earring Design 2013
Metaxa Earring Design 2013
Cow Jumpt Over The Moon Earring Design 2013
Emma´s Steinway Bracelet - Mixed Media 2012
Graphic Design 1995
Graphic Design 20017
Graphic Design 2017
Graphic Design 2012
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