City by the water 2008, a self explanatory architectural/abstract work.
Acrylic on stretched quality canvas, stapled on the back, no need to frame, 60x60x1cm £125.65

Gridlock 2008, abstract Acrylic on stretched quality canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted no need to frame 50x40x1cm £45.00

Twister 2007, abstract. Acrylic on stretched quality canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted no need to frame, 39x30x1cm £35.00

Off roading and global warming 2007, This work depicts the onslaught of global warming where natural phenomenon and man's continued usage of fossil fuels are increasing the earth's temperatures. An abstract figurative figure can be seen rising out of the dirt on an off road bike wearing a helmet whilst, to the right the debris, damage and the by products of the sport are left behind. The significance of the high rider shows man's continued lack of concern rising above the issues and the consequences. Mixed media on stretched quality canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted, no need to frame, 90x90x1cm £125.00

New York City from the highway 2006, this semi-abstract work takes a look at at the city of New York with its towering buildings stretching far into the sky creating a magnificent skyline whilst lower down at ground level the maze of roads surrounding the structures.
Oil on stretched canvas, stapled on the back, 95x95x3cm £185.00




Catching up 2007

Catching up 2007, This piece of work in intriguing, it portrays an image of two figures sitting, chatting engaged in intense and invigorating conversation discussing the world as the world passes by.Not all can be seen the figures are shadow like and obscured, beneath a fairly clear sky beneath the figures can be seen a no-entry sign or is it a national speed limit sign to the right lies some fruit. Oil on stretched canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted, no need to frame, 36x36cm £670.00 SOLD

See Yourself? Where? 2007 Supporting the ever-changing face of contemporary Manchester, See Yourself? Where?, mixed media, 2007, reflects living in the urban social landscape that is Manchester's modern cityscape.  An inordinately large mechanical futuristic figure drives Manchester's sense of continuity and regeneration of hope, power and thought forward. Manchester's landmark architecture is pushed in a blood-red shopping trolley, as symbolic witness to human bloodshed at right-angles with ultimate sacrifice of Manchester's survival and growth after terrorism. Man's goliath body is painted as a sealed oblong envelope partitioned into four triangles stuffed with financial payment in reward for honoured North-West trades offering employment and wage. Sealed, it shows no open division between people, geography, traditions and cultures and no deceitful "cash-for-questions" politics hiding personal issues with public histories in harmonious open-house Manchester either. The slight figure in the trolley is both supported by Manchester's new styled skyline, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with traditional buildings. Up-to-the-minute architecture transforms its facade resembling a handmade object describing the human condition. Indicative of our throw-away recycled state, a banana skin and rubbish bin motions a circular " no-entry" sign screaming "enough" commemorating Manchester's identity with industrial expansion racing with increasing desire to live successfully in a multi-cultural metropolis. Mixed media on stretched canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted no need to frame, 90x90x3cm £850.00

"CHICKEN RUN" 2008 (artist Ian Tavill joins forces to highlight animal welfare)
Manchester artist Ian Tavill has joined the battle with Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, the RSPCA and animal rights group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) to get consumers to eat more welfare friendly reared chicken by highlighting some of the welfare issues in poultry production by producing a 90x90cm mixed media work of art on canvas called Chicken Run where actual blood has been incorporated in the pigment. A chicken stands to the left surrounded by walls, all the area is splattered with debris, paper, eggs and faeces. The chickens neck has been severed with the blood splattering the surroundings. A gruesome tale of existence forced upon these poor defenceless creatures. The farming takes place in large windowless sheds, often containing tens of thousands of birds, the result of the rapid growth and lack of space, the birds are prone to lameness, heart and respiratory problems. It is claimed by the CIWF that one in twenty dies because of heart attack, hungar, and suffer stress and unsanitary conditions. These birds that have been bred to gow more quickly"frankenstein chickens" typically, a chicken raised in this way reaches a finished weight of 2.5kg within nine weeks and is then sold in our supermarkets.
The campaign by the celebrity chefs has been backed by a similar move by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A hard hitting series of programmes which was released earlier this year saw the big four supermarkets, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons alter their tactics after the UK consumer willingly embraced free range eggs followed by chickens. As a consequence a number of chicken farmers have gone out of business but, it is not necessarily the farmer that is wholly to blame when the supermarkets sell a whole chicken for less than a "service station cappuccino" Sainsbury's sold whole chickens for as little as £3.50 for two. Ian Tavill is currently working on a number of other animal welfare projects which are to be released in the near future. If the campaign is to permanently alter the way that the consumer considers choice then the public reminders need to remain active for some time to come.Mixed media on stretched canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted, no need to frame, 90x90x3cm £400.00

Siblings 2007, abstract. Oil on stretched quality canvas, stapled on the back, sides painted no need to frame 95x95x3cm £100.00

Sleep 2007
Sleep 2007 oil on stretched canvas, stapled on the back, no need to frame 50x40x1cm £25.00

Folded paper 2007
Folded paper 2007 oil on canvas board 15x20cm £20.00