faces

Often migrants, sometimes politicians, or a face from the news that has caught my eye, occasionally family.

Little to offer refugees

Inspired by images in the news from Sudan

Talks remained gridlocked

Refugees and migrants collaged together

Man in Black

Inspired by an image search for Johnny Cash

Violating Rights of its Children

A family and a street

Outside the Court

Inspired by protests in the news

Abort the Court

Inspired by the abortion rights protests

Peaceful Protest should be Newsworthy

Inspired by news images of protests

Tired of Waiting, So Tired

Refugees waiting for decision

Daytripping Rivercruise

Inspired by persons taking a river cruise after lockdown

Convoke and Convene

Inspired by protesters in Khartoum

African Solutions

Close up of JZ

A Revolution

A woman shouting with words

Take a Bow

The bow of a boat with refugees

Feeling like a Dead Duck

A person sitting on the street, with cup

Likely to Lose Fight

Refugees on a boat approaching England

Foreshadow and Tarry

Various persons in different poses of waiting shown one behind the other

Welcome to Kabul

A man with a gun and disproportionate features stands in front of a Welcome to Kabul sign

Demand and Comply

Two disproportionate women holding a sheet of paper in front of a shadow of riot police

Gather and Throw

Two uniformed persons gather the flag being held by a person in the act of throwing

Fascinated and other words

Two persons wearing masks holding a paisley pattern placard in front of writing

Repeat Repeat Repeat

A protesting man raises a fist in front of colourful words repeat repeat repeat

Gaza

Two news images from Gaza, an explosion and a man carrying a child

Apportioning

Inspired by clothes distribution centre in Chingani, Ethiopia.

Mob Pattern

Persons wearing masks protwst shown in patterna

A Bus Passanger

It is the story behind the conversation at the border with a bus passanger.

Institute of Virology

There on the outside is there on the inside and all there is is the institute of virology

Half-Friends

There is a point when a decision needs to be made, you can not forever remain half-friends

May Have Stopped Falling

There was this time, this strange time, there was a place I knew once, they learned they may have stopped falling

Fears of Insider Attack

There is a time and a place for fears of an insider attack

Lets Make London Warm

At the moment it is hot, the aroma is not great but such is life, but it is not always this warm, sometimes gloves and a good coat is just what is needed. This picture is about both now and then.

Joan in Paisley Armour

Thursday #PortraitChallenge Inspired by Joan of Arc, a 1903 engraving by Albert Lynch @StudioTeaBreak

You Remember and other words

you remember nudging his legs apart and asking do you have anything.

My Pleasure and other words

Yes, it is my pleasure, don't judge me and I won't judge me

Still in a Strange Land

Inspired by 'In a Strange Land', painted in oil on canvas by Dod Procter in 1919

The Story You Told and other words

The story you told was not yours, not yours to tell, but you told it so beautifully I forgave you, so beautiful I would forgive you anything.

Just Thinking and other words

Just thinking for a moment Just taking my time As time is what I have Time to think about you

When Shes Gone and other words

I was thinking of the day when I told her about the blood, but now she is gone.

Be the Best and other words

I read the words, be your best, be the best or you are already dead, but the words were in a book that was, at best, mediocre.

Tangerian Girl and other words

Inspired by watercolour by Jose Tapiro y Baro in 1891

Unspoken and other words

I wanted to ask but didn't, I hoped you would do it anyway, but I didn't ask. Now the sadness hangs just behind my eyes.

Cold Sun and other words

Beautiful old woman laughing and dancing in the sun, the cold sun.

Anger and other words

A screaming protester is dragged away by the police; someone, perhaps a photographer, perhaps a journalist, takes the photo and it is a new thing that parades through the social media. Do you remember when the social meant something else?

Handcuffs and other words

This picture was inspired by an image in the news, I focussed on the figure adding patterns and words.

Refugees and other words

Once again in the news, an article about the deplorable treatment of migrants and refugees. When I was a migrant I did not need to struggle.

Paulette and other words

So, Theresa says that this was not what she meant to happen but nonetheless she is not going to let Amber play any more.

Renford and other words

It has become a really big thing now, good, it should be.

Hubert and other words

A portrait inspired by a news article on the difficulties faced by migrants.

Migrant 40 and other words

Are you welcoming of a new person in a neighbourhood?

Time for getting on

A portrait

Man in Black again

Inspired by an image search for Johnny Cash

Catastrophically Overcrowded

Refugees on a boat

An Asinine Inhumane Way

Inspired by crowded migration boats

And I did not get laid

Inspired by workplace partying in the news

What needed to be done

Long haired figures walking abreast

Before the Windrush

Inspired by migrants arriving by boat

A larger crowd waiting for a pint

A group of people at the side of the road

After Queue Chaos

Inspired by the queues at the airport and flight cancellations

Further Notes on Hostile Environment

Asylum seekers arriving by boat

Inhalation Annihilation

A woman without a mouth sits in front of a ruined building

Up Against the Wall

Various persons seated in front of a wall

Fly Like Paper

A firefighter and an abstract fire

El Norte

Inspired by American migrants in the news

Cover and Collude

A man with a gun squatting on the head of another man

And the Walls were Very High

A young person is pulled up to a group on the top of a wall with barbed wire pattern.

Walking By

Various disproportionate persons walking, standing and sitting on an armoured vehicle in front of a leaf pattern

On Fire and Loss

A collage of news images of wildfires around the world including firemen and a distraught woman

House of Many Rooms

Members of a refugee family shown in proportions as if in different rooms

Heads You Win

Two young women wearing face masks holding posters shown one up one down.

Dressed to the Right

Two persons looking to the right of the picture, one in a swimsuit, the other in a suit and in a frame

Congo Free

A collage of two soldiers and an arrester man from different news stories.

The New Dubiety

A woman turning to look at the viewer in front of a pattern, her masks has turned into a puppy dog.

Familiarity and Contempt

An elderly man looking at the viewer with rheumy eyes

As Animals and other words

A collage of images taken from the news and social media

Higher Among Low Paid Workers

There are things that are unfair, these are things higher among low paid workers

Incomes and Health

In this, in that, to the point where restrictions cut off incomes and health.

This is not Freedom

The headline said it, simply, but nonetheless I wonder, really, this is not freedom

In Green

Thursday #PortraitChallenge Moroccan man in green, painted in 1932 by Zinaida Serebriakova @StudioTeaBreak

Homeless Man Kicked Out

Perhaps, like a leaf, like a bush in the undergrowth, they become invisible. But perhaps it is our duty to see.

Clothes Hanging off her Body

Clothes Hanging Off Her Body like the Artist had Reached in and Pulled Them Off

Look at Me and other words

And when you look at me what do you really see? Inspired by the use of images on Twitter and Instagram.

26541 and other words

Inspired by Guardian news article on immigration and deportation in the UK

The Worlds Most Expensive Painting

Inspired by Salvador Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci

Have You Ever and other words

Inspired by pagan symbols and the rituals of awaiting social networking alarms.

Move and other words

Move regards itself as a revolutionary movement committed to a healthy life free of oppression and pollution.

Neville and other words

I dear I have slipped towards parochial and dogmatic rather than expressing my wisdoms at any, every opportunity as Neville does on Twitter, according to the Guardian.

Phillip and other words

So, Phillip is gone which gives everyone who cares a moment to pause and say what they liked so very much.

Sad Book and other words

I wanted to respond to sad story as it is such an honest story, and I have been sad too.

Sybarite and other words

What does he want?

Hot Sun and other words

So I wandered from one image to the next as is the wonder of the internet, as is the wonder of the modern.

Look Left and other words

Inspired by thoughts and the news online

Confrontation and other words

A striking pose, an unforgiving pose. I loved this character I found in the background of a photograph.

Memory of your Smile and other words

It is picture of my son, one of many taken click, click, click. We were being silly, messing about in the back garden. A good day. This smile was when I told him not to smile, a smile to remember.

Beautiful Man and other words

Standing there, looking out his window at the beautiful world outside

Michael and other words

So, things ain't been so good for Michael since Theresa and her friends changed the rules of the game and made it difficult for everyone to play.

Bafflement and other words

So, Kemi said she once hacked Harriet's website and changed stuff and Mustafa is wondering if she will be in trouble like his friends were when they did the same thing

A Man of 38 and other words

Inspired by portrait by Lucas van Leyden, 1521, in the National Gallery, London.