Back in February I started a Facebook page with my sister dedicated to my Dad's art. He made a living as a graphic designer, but his first love was always painting and fine art, which he was always doing, but increasingly so in later life, especially after he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 1994. Over the course of two years or so he produced a staggering amount of work, sometimes painting five or six pictures at once! He'd have them lined up round his studio, and use the same colour in each of them so that by the time he'd painted the last one the first was dry, so he mixed the next colour and started again. It all culminated in an exhibition in Beirut in the spring of 1996 where he sold over fifty paintings.
They cover a wide variety of styles and subject matter from abstract patterns to landscape to still life to etchings and calligraphy, though most of is later work focused on landscapes in Spain and Lebanon and Arabic abstracts and calligraphy.
While a lot of them were sold, my sister and I have quite a few of the original paintings and photos of most of them so we will be updating the Facebook page from time to time as a showcase for his work. If anyone out there has any of his other works, particularly earlier stuff, please feel free to post them on the page. You can see the page here:
This one, by the way, is a painting of the back garden of the house we grew up in the late 70s. It's oils on either wood or canvas. I remember him working on it, but don't know what happened to the painting.
