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Cactuses

2014 to 2019 · gouache, marker and oil · 11 pieces

Sketchbook studies of cactuses as creatures, photographed on a table, plus two oil paintings that grow out of them.

A square oil painting of a cluster of plump multicoloured cactus pads sprouting curled arms from one another, in orange, blue, pink and green on a pale ground.
Cactus Growing Out Of Itself
A square oil painting on bare wood of a plant made of fat pastel lobes in green, pink, yellow, lilac and orange rising diagonally from the bottom.
Plant In Progress
A gouache painting in a spiral sketchbook of a cactus with a green and yellow trunk and fat multicoloured lobes reaching up like fingers.
Gouache Cactus 4
A gouache painting in a spiral sketchbook of a small striped rainbow cactus in a red pot, with a faint shadow of a larger cactus bleeding through the page.
Gouache Cactus 5
A grey marker drawing in a spiral sketchbook of a camouflage patterned cactus body with striped, twisted arms ending in spines.
Marker Cactus 3
A grey marker drawing in a spiral sketchbook of a cactus with faceted, crystal like arms reaching upward in a fan.
Marker Cactus 2
A grey marker drawing in a spiral sketchbook of a desert valley full of tall cactuses with raised arms, under rounded mountains.
Marker Cactus 4
A grey marker drawing in a spiral sketchbook of a branching cactus with thick arms covered in cone shaped spines.
Marker Cactus 1
A small gouache painting of a bright green rounded cactus body with spiky arms in purple, red, blue, yellow and orange radiating from it, photographed on a wooden table.
Gouache Cactus 3
A small gouache painting of a cactus with a pink and red trunk and arms in yellow, green and blue, signed crump 14, photographed on a wooden table.
Gouache Cactus 2
A small gouache painting of a green tree cactus with many spiky arms and pale spines, outlined in black on white paper, photographed on a wooden table.
Gouache Cactus 1