The Katanga Sunbird

The mythical bird of the Katanga savanna - a cousin to the  Bird of Paradise which is not actually a bird at all. How absurd.

Ink on paper (8 1/2" x 11") 1984 Lubumbashi

The Katanga Sunbird is rumoured to enjoy rushes in the marshland of the artificial lake. Very inky!

Sketches From a Town in the Rainforest

Sketches from a steamy rainforest in the heart of Africa from long ago and far away in another time and another place when I was younger than today and things looked different but were as normal as could be in their own reality of what once was.

From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5)

From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5)

From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5)

 In a world that was black and white and colour including technicolor,

From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5)

and yes, it is a small world after all.

Boyoma la Belle

There is no forest portrayed here, but there should be. The hills don't exist, they are a few strokes of the brush. Reality has no fields that are not in a small clearing in the forest invisible to any road.
Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.

 

Painted ten years after I left -- a sketch in paint -- the trees urban, the rest imagination. Is that allowed?