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a female figure with her back to the viewer, turning to show her profile a young man turning to look at the viewer, proportions slighly distorted to focus on his right eye a woman looking to the left with her right hand cupping her face gently a man sitting in a guarded position, elbows on knees and turning to look at the viewer an old woman painted in bright yellows and blues a female figure looking up and to the left, painted in a high key a female figure peeking over her shoulder with eyes closed a female figure with pursed lips, painted such that much of the detail on the face has dissolved, except for the lips a female figure peeking over her shoulder and looking to the left a black male figure looking toward the camera, painted in bold blue brush strokes a figure hides behind their hand a female figure poised to start running to the left, looking forward with determination a female figure looking up and to the right, painted in bold red and blue brushstrokes a bald male figure with hands behind his head, looking down a female figure grimacing with hands raised in front of her a male figure with one hand on his head and another on his chin, painted in red on a green-blue background a male figure with arms wrapped around himself, and bending over to crumple in on himself

Transparency

A green octagonal cup stands in front of a blue bottle and shows the refraction of the blue bottle in the column like features of the cup. A yellow dish is seen through a purple vase. A red cup eclipses a yellow tealight holder that is behind it.  The holder appears twice in the distortions in the red cup. the foot of an yellow dish concentrates the colour of the glass and looks orange.  In the distance is a second foot and the rest of the dish, much paler, arcs upwards. A glass vase sits on a windowsill in front of some trees.  The reflections on the vase are formed of runs and bleeds in the watercolour. The horizontal lines of the rim, base and reflections of a purple bowl interact with the vertical lines in a yellow cup that sits behind it. a red cup stands on the base of a blue wine glass, and is tilted but the frame of the painting is oriented with the red glass a green dish in front of a red wine glass the sky viewed through a yellow glass serving dish, some trees and a sunset visible a 12 sided green drinking glass viewed from the top with a window in the background seen through the far side of the glass a bright yellow glass serving dish stands on an upside down blue glass dish the threaded top of a brown glass bottle rests on a yellow glass candleholder with blue glass vase in the distance a glass tumbler with a blue rim at the base, a yellow glass candle holder and a yellow glass bowl overlapping in space a collection of glass objects in front of a purple glass bottle with a blue partially cloudy sky in the distance looking through an empty glass tea light holder at the shapes formed by green and brown glass objects behind it

Oyster Mushrooms

graphite drawing of oyster mushroom gills graphite drawing of oyster mushroom gills graphite drawing of oyster mushroom gills watercolour painting of oyster mushrooms with brown caps watercolour painting of oyster mushrooms with brown caps watercolour painting of white oyster mushrooms graphite drawing of oyster mushroom gills watercolour painting of oyster mushrooms with yellow caps

Paintings

one hand holding an apple and the other pinching the stem with the fingers fanned out red and yellow onions in a copper pot next to a sprig of green sage a yellow sunflower in profile on a purple background a red poppy, the center in focus and the edges fading into a green background oranges, one peeled, on a blue ceramic serving dish yellow-green pears on a dark background chiaroscuro a spread of red japanese maple leaves with green veins four panels of a jellyfish floating in a dark turquoise sea pale yellow wheat with purple shadows, the zigzag shape of wheat repeated throughout the image glasses, a book and a ribbon, all white on a white background an image of a copperhead snake in a bed of clover a hand touching the face in an expression of exasperation


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