I've always been attracted to abstraction, but it was not until December 1998 that the first promising work appeared. This section shows examples of the new developments.

Executed in pastel and taking at most a few weeks, they are a radical departure from my previous work'

Avril Paton

china sands

drowning

a great wave

la balance

otherworlds

secrets

floatation

flesh and bone

pigging out

nine eleven

decending light

the last dance

shift

arcana

joust

cat

she

he

picasso's blue

natural events

conversation

the warning rustle of
the sedge grass

pinkland

memory of leaves

the red sofa

moonriders I

moonriders II

windward the warrior

raising byzantium

alaska

en plein air

painted lines

spaces within

wings

untitled

oceanus I

oceanus II

oceanus III

oceanus IV

small pleasures 1

small pleasures 2

small pleasures 3

small pleasures 4

small pleasures 5

small pleasures 6

small pleasures 7

small pleasures 8

small pleasures 9