The Environment

Humans appear to have an unconscious drive to destroy our planet. So it is heartening to witness enlightened young people around the world working together to remind us of our urgent need to value what we have and recognise our planet’s fragility, our interdependence and the need to change behaviour.

The natural world and animals, remain ongoing themes in my work. These small oil paintings on board, are from the 100 Painted Vows series, made as offerings or Ex Votives.

An Ex Votive painting about Global Warming showing an elephant dying of thirst, a Polar Bear on an Island of ice , traffic fumes and a burnt and bandaged baby Kangaroo.

Global Warming.Help us to see what a wonderful world this is, and to take better care of it.
Ex Votive Offering - 2017.

A painting about the extinction of the rhino, and drawings illustrating the causes.

Kenya.The last wild-born male northern white rhino dies. Humans are driving a new era of mass extinction around the world.
20th March 2018.

An Ex Votive painting showing Pangolins and our impact on Nature: Environmental Crime. showing many dead pangolin hanging on a line and mother and baby alive, with another up a tree. Asia/Africa . 100 Painted Vows

Asia & Africa.One Pangolin is illigally taken from the wild every 5 minutes. A newly discovered fingerprint technique may help to save them from extinction.
17th February 2018.

A painting about Africa's Cyclone Idai and climate change . Showing floods, and devastation, people who need rescuing and animals swimming for land .

Africa.Cyclone Idai reminds us of the impact of climate change. 120 mile an hour winds, then floods, caused death and devastation to people and animals.
15th March 2019.

Ex Votive Painting about the suffering and damage we are inflicting on Orangutang's and their habitats. Orange forest stripped earth is exposed and diggers and guns have replaced the forest.

Indonesia and Malaysia.Our destruction of the rainforest for Palm Oil is driving Orangutans and other native wildlife towards extinction.
August 2018.

An Ex Votive painting showing rows of endangered Uk Insects , displayed like a victorian specimen drawer.

Insect Extinction.Scientists warm that our insects could be extinct in a century.
7th March 2019.

An Ex Votive painting showing the effects of the flash floods at Coverack, Cornwall . A local woman holds a sink that was washed away and a helicopter hovers over the sea.

Coverack, Cornwall.Flash floods swept through the village. No one was hurt. Many good people helped to clean up.
18th July 2017.

Ex Votive Painting about Gweek Seal Sanctuary , showing the seals and a girl feeding them fish and St Michaels Mount in the background.

Gweek Seal Sanctuary, Cornwall.They rescued record numbers of injured seals and pups after the storms.
17th January 2018.

A painting of men resting and eating the rare and endangered Bell's Hinged Tortoise's, Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe.The terrible tale of the rare Bell's Hinged Tortoise's.Eaten by migrant workers. Acrylic and oil on wooden box.2021.W 37.3 x H 27xD 24mm.Signed. Artists studio number. (Blog-Terrible tales).

A painting of a man on a bed in pyjamas sitting on his bed with his feet in water.

The Flood . Berkshire, England.Ex Votive. 5th January 2024 Newbury Berkshire. The flood.