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A kingdom in a horse

the precipice

Your empirical Dominion

Lip Gloss

Disfiguring Images

Madame Tulip

Sails and smiles

Blue Heart

Disguise

GUMS

Hydra

The Blue Dreamscape

WE ARE TOGETHER

The Eyes

Camera Ready

For you

Packing

Addled Riddles

The trappings of the sea

Untethered

Siamese

Come Closer

Breathless

Intermittent Vision

LOSS – 2016

Pasture

Looking At Love

Confirmed Bachelor Explains

Ardhanarishvara

Duplicated echo

Why this is what surrounds me

The Last Word

Mary’s Night Out

What You Think is Right

Arrival in Lamu

Running Naked

The Twin

TELEOLOGY

Aurelia aurita

Flotsam

See-through

Aerospace Grade Materials

The Dark Room

My Grandfather’s Gloves

It’s a blue glove day

I, Chivalrous

Loria Lotus

Shorelined

Ashvameda

The Room of Now

The Glove Maker

Sage, forest, moss

Redundant Things

In hand/By mouth

An Eye For An Eye

Flimsy

A Certain Dignity

Between Myself and I

Another Life

Liminal

Spliced

Free Ride

TRACE

Pouring

Desire

Spring

I Wonder If I’ll Ever See Your Hands Again

Freefalling

Backtalk

(G)listen

The Stallion

Neigh

Eye of the Stallion

Sphinx to Fellah Woman

Unbearable Closeness

Blindsided

Adrift

Control

Just get rid of the axis, they’re as bold as loathing

FAMILY HEIRLOOM

Red or blue?

Farewell

Horns Over Hooves

Cheer Up

The Horse

Sea Shalls

A Whirlwind Romance

Afterthought

Bad Hair Day

to forgive (v.)

Rest

Lipstick Covered Revenge

Thin Ice

My Black Beauty

Obsessions

G(loved)

Not Dreamlike

The Scarlet Woman

The Moon, the Wind and the Sea

How It Happened

Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo

New Man

Competent Crew

Her Faith Is Not Blind

Red

Edge

Vold

My Comfort

Different Shores

GRAN’S LEGACY

Going, Going, Gone

Done in a cubist style

Binding

Still they come

A Regular Morning

HUMAN COLORS

(Love) Or Something Like That.

Behind the Curtain

of tendencies, the thing about jellyfish is

Sun kissed

Billow

The Warmth of a Glove

Last Night I Had A Dream That Polly Jean Was Our Queen

ONLY IN DERRY PORT

An Orange Day

Strangers in the Night

Ailsa

Peril at Sea

When The Sphinx Thinks Of Herself

A Sphinx, Methinks

How to walk blindfolded/ Or make a general mess of things

observations

Hand in glove

News

Broken Woman

She Left

FOREPLAY AT THE OASIS

colours on my hands

Not Just Gloves

Yachting with the Catwalk Five

Part Bitter Part Sweet

Inner Vision

camouflage

Two reasons to sail for the Femme Marin

Picture-postcard

Skin Deep

Blindfolds

Empty Gloves

Twenty halves

Years shuffle Faces

Two-faced beings

The Promise

On the Outside of Time

On Phony Voyage

Those Arpeggio Days

Need to Know

Baring my Soul

Memory In Advance

Red and White

an old man in palliative care on an island

Our Fever

Lips Untamed (the flamingo)

Her Face

Lover Killer

The Italian Straw Hat

Epoch, (part 1.)

Another World

Pachycephalosaurus

Dream Analysis

The Horses Pulled the Milkwagons

First Love

Battles

Reeducation

Horsing Around

Rainbow Cake

Your Foot

Still, Life

Halter Head

A Disappearing Act

Meteorology

Stocking

She Wasn’t Pretty

Glove

Three out of four

Small Talk

Junk

Just Because She Comes Back

Sirens

Make pretty

Inner

The Horse’s Eyes

Rituals

Muse

The Appearance

Sphinx

Altered!

The Horse’s Mouth

Character Outline

The Painting of Abigail

blinding indifference

Break

The Red Mist

The Finishing Line

Model citizen

THE GENESIS OF DARING

Entry

Chapters

Love in prints-able

Quick, Before the Gate Closes

Carpe Diem

Every brushstroke is an idea

The End Times

Lip Service

Lip synching, ship sinking?

Excursion

The Metal Bar

Abraxas

Surrounded by People

Mountain Dew

Following

Mimic

The Power of Waves

LIPPY

Rudderless

Adrift

Uneasy peace

Anchor

SeaScape

Concussion

The Hidden Saint

Jean Esme Cooke: A Self-portrait

What Wonders to Behold

Mirror Image

Becoming June

You never could see me, could you?

Personal Progress Log, day 218

The Ocean’s Edge

Lovely Day

Irrevocable Things

Oh no!

Wilful Blindness

We Played our Blinder

What Am I Like?

invisible cat’s cradle

Fifty Years Ago Today

black blood is on the move

ABSTRACT PROPOSAL

Faces

Circus

Mona Maddelena

Until We Are All Free

The Rupture

The Finishing Touch

From the Forest

Dark Horse

Dream

COLLISION COURSE

Smile on the horizon

A HORSE’S EYE

Reflection: Notting Hill, 1968

Blind

She

The (Holy) Magazine.

ARION

Celia

Morning Commute

HER FACE

Decanter

a different shade of blue

Creeping

The Swaddling

Je Ne Regret Rien

she sails

The Black Horse

She Wants To See Egypt Now

Thank You Joe

the sea got over it soon

Three worlds

Dance, Then, Wherever You May Be

Eleutheromania

hey joe (sir real

Hippophobia.

The Sea Calls Me

Stemming the Flood

Fifty Years Ago Today

I am api

The Fourth Wall

mine i

FUTURE HISTORY

Unfurl, almost

Looking back

A monument of time

We are one

Desert Eye

Happiness without Love

An Attempt at Wilderness

Art? Satire? Mood?

Innocence Lost

Sniff

Bound

Passage

When where it is we’re going, stays still

Barbara

Veils

Careful What You Wish For!

The Cartographer

The hat

Where Hippodamia and Hippolytus escape from the land of the Houyhnhnms

Blindfold

Brown is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair

Lagoons

nudes with poppies, revisited

1066

Do The Math

Deep Water

A bowler or a bonnet

Homecoming

Silk

It Lingers

The Stranger

Defending Mara’s Mop

Tickety-boo

As I see it

On the Ocean’s Edge

The Woman Who Kept the Sea Under her Hat

She knew

licking back feet

SAP

Glimpsed through the veil

étude

The Elephant Sitting In The Room

BEYOND WILDE

Sea Fishing

Upon reflection

PORTRAIT SNAP

Free

Doors

Dreamboat

Let the Document Show

Happy

Green

Image

No Longer Wait

Ripening

Snapped sandals

Clay Lights

Starless

A Mask of Faith

The Sentient Being

The Usefulness Of The Insignificant In The Role Of Faith And Doubt

The lipstick lady

A Head of This

The Scottish Horse Squadron , Perth 1914

CHER HENRI

Amalgamation

White with two

Again

Falling in love at the Imperial Decline Beauty Pageant

Lay of the Lady Lipstick

Sisterhood

Horse Sense

THE BATTLE OF THE HYDASPES

Broken

Beyond Washed Stars

Sail Me Away

Les femmes de Sourie, elles sourient

Give a horse what he needs and he’ll give you his heart in return. Anon.

A heavy liaison

Self-Sculptress

What We Forget

Out Of The Blue

Ottile

Meeting At Tartus

In it together

Menagerie

Bondage

Wane

TEA WITH LOU

The Extreme

Of Lips And Promises

The Genie out of the Bottle

A bunch of chaos

Memories of happiness

Memories of a Childhood Game

JUDAS KISS

Bee Line

Lay It On My Back

Face it

Apatheia

Hot N Cold

Open Up

The Many Lives of Cynthia’s Pony

Antón Lizardo

Peaceful Storm Within

The Artist

Collagen decoupage

The Sixth Day

Journey to a New Land

His Platonic Mistress

A Death in the Family

Questions without answers

Head Binder

In the same boat

High Sea Salvation

The Reflection of Reincarnation

INDESTRUCTIBLE

Just Blindfolded

Nuryev

weep

SELF IMAGE

Deer

the hunters

In Defense of the Mop

Gazes

The Ship She Launched

The Cost of Freedom

Well Met

No looking back.

I Go Sailing

Hodgepodge

Ancient Writ

Segue

Syrian women

In the blue

HOME IN THE MEMBRANE

My little pony

And the nothing was living and moist

Restart

Land

Fleet Apples

HUMANITY MANIFESTS

Every day in summer it’s my job they come every year with money get down there with your art OK Mammy

Shells

Bird Whisperer

Anatomy Of A Rickshaw-Wallah’s Dream

Lavender Robes

Self Portrait with Straw Hat

The Stare

To Donkeys

fjord, un-strange this

Gilded Illumination

THE LETTER

Gaze-Hangers

Space age

Loose Ends

The Horses of Hades

Across The Divide

Watercolor

Sunny Side

Separation

The eye

A Leap and a Push

The Conversation

hats for me are deliberate…

Rebus

at the fullness // of the fat on // skin’s red surfaces

Mistranslation

The Beauty of Stoicism

On the Down Side

Femmes de Sourie

King And His Knave

Colour me Black and Gray

The Dog at the Table

Our Different Selves

The Daytrippers

Who are you?

Coveted

Smile

Hiding place

Portrait of Jean Cooke

The Talk

39

Untitled

Gandhari re-born

The party game gone wrong

Veiled

Finishing School

Lost Causes

Octopus

Smashing Darling

Once

An Old Photo

barfly

Mr. Hankston

Friend or Foe

Jekyll

Summer theater

The Coming of Spring

Exit

Collage

Roughshod

The Torn Portrait

The Hunger

of tendencies, hinges

The ‘Being’ Within

It was my time.

Writer

Empirical bridle

The Spinx’s wife

Be the blindfold called, ‘love’

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