Songs never before heard
This ongoing sequence began in 2018, and each work stems from the poetry of Catullus and Horace.
They are all small watercolour and gouache paintings on paper, and have formed the basis of my thinking for this application. They are presented here with the translations which inspired them.
Catullus 68 A
Single bed
Soft sleep
Grudge
Requests
Duty of
A guest
All taste
Ask
Fortune
Threshold
My content
Prime
Book
Box
In tears
Written
Unasked
Suffers not
Shipwrecked
Brother
Watercolour, gouache, and pigment on paper, 2024 - 25
15 x 15 cm
Catullus 1
For what it's worth
Trivia
Jupiter
Unfold
Booklet
Learned and laborious
The one Italian
Thought
Whom
Generation
Virgin patroness
So take
Lately
Watercolour, gouache, pigment and acrylic on paper, 2023 - 24
15 x 15 cm
Horace
Odes, Book II - I - Motum ex Metello
To hear of
Armour
Faces of the horseman
Ever green
The laurel
The dazzle
The victors
Latin blood
Offerings
Assault
Under ashes
Dust
Sorry war
Shades of Jugurtha
Causes of war
Fatal friend
Honours
Daughter's cave
Grave's testimony
Due course
Evils and ways
Watercolour, gouache, pigment and acrylic on paper, 2023 - 24
15 x 15 cm
Horace
Odes, Book III - I - Odi profanum vulgus
Cruel winters
At the gate
Breezes
Holy silence
Valley
Naked blade
Mob
Song of birds
Scorch the fields
Necessity
Sweet savour
Purple brighter than purple
Crown
Shrinking of the water
Western
At a distance
Country people
It is enough
Sing for girls
Songs never before heard
Shady bank
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 2021 - 24
15 x 15 cm
Horace
Odes, Book I - XIV - O navis, referent
Side
Harbour
Undergrowth
Mounting tyranny
Mislead
Hull
As you go
Daughter
Threat-prophecy
Free from
Turn
Sou'wester
Unsound
All complaints
Deep love
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 2019 - 20
15 x 15 cm
Catullus 51
Mouth
Stare
To me
Path
Sleep
Unrest
Ruin
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 2018 - 19
15 x 15 cm
Catullus 11
Nile
Wilderness
Meadow
Memorial
Wall
Door
Course
Storm
Navigate
India
Arrows
Nile
Friends
Poet
Return
Purge
A couple
On the rocks
Edge
Rocks
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 2018 - 19
15 x 15 cm