Portraits

Arnold Schoenberg:
Tonal Variations

2007
Oil on linen, 81 x 66 cm | 32” x 26”

A visual counterpart to Schoenberg’s music, most of which has no tonal centre and which later employs what he calls developing variations.
In the background are images from such works as Moses and Aaron, Jacob’s Ladder, and Pierrot Lunaire

Portrait of Helen Parkes

(after Dürer)

2007
Oil on linen, 81 x 66 cm | 32” x 26”
in private collection

Gustav Mahler
(Song of the Earth)

2006
Oil on linen, 81 x 62 cm | 32” x 26”

In the moonlight a wild and ghostly figure crouches on the graves.
It is an ape!

Sigmund Freud
with Sphinx

2005
Oil on linen, 81 x 66 cm | 32” x 26”

The Sphinx is borrowed from the painting by Ingres, a reproduction of which Freud had in his consulting room