Mixed Media
Modern
Mesozoic
The Duel
Quarto Children's Books
It is the time of year when male Pachycephalosaurus fight for dominance and the right to mate with females. Most battles are decided before violence, using aggressive dancing and bellowing, but when two males are equally matched they resort to head strikes. Their elaborate skulls are predominantly used for display but when necessary they become dangerous battering rams thrust into an opponent’s torso.
It is the time of year when male Pachycephalosaurus fight for dominance and the right to mate with females. Most battles are decided before violence, using aggressive dancing and bellowing, but when two males are equally matched they resort to head strikes. Their elaborate skulls are predominantly used for display but when necessary they become dangerous battering rams thrust into an opponent’s torso.
The Last Brachiosaur
Private commission
It has been forty days since the sun last fell to the sound of singing brachiosaurs. For several weeks she sang alone hoping for a reply from another of her kind, but none came. Now, like her elderly frame, her will is broken and beneath the setting Cretaceous sun she awaits her fate. The silhouette of her massive but graceful neck lowers as sleep approaches. Following this night, never again will a Brachiosaurus shadow be cast upon the Earth.
It has been forty days since the sun last fell to the sound of singing brachiosaurs. For several weeks she sang alone hoping for a reply from another of her kind, but none came. Now, like her elderly frame, her will is broken and beneath the setting Cretaceous sun she awaits her fate. The silhouette of her massive but graceful neck lowers as sleep approaches. Following this night, never again will a Brachiosaurus shadow be cast upon the Earth.
Big Cretaceous
British Antarctic Survey
Antarctica during the Cretaceous was a very different place to what it is today. From a hilltop overlooking a river we can see it is a green environment comprised of Larches, Sitka Spruce, Norway Spruce, Bald Cypress, Yew, and Gingko trees. There are also Juniper bushes, ferns, cycads, horsetails, and lichens.
Antarctica during the Cretaceous was a very different place to what it is today. From a hilltop overlooking a river we can see it is a green environment comprised of Larches, Sitka Spruce, Norway Spruce, Bald Cypress, Yew, and Gingko trees. There are also Juniper bushes, ferns, cycads, horsetails, and lichens.
Leap of Faith
Private Commission
Beneath grey clouds on a Jurassic beach two male Ceratosaurus ingens are battling for territorial supremacy. In full display colours the two fighting theropods do not notice an approaching allosaur. When the allosaur attacks the Ceratosaurus suddenly flee for their life! With the giant predator in close pursuit one Ceratosaurus takes a gamble and leaps blind off a jagged rock...
Beneath grey clouds on a Jurassic beach two male Ceratosaurus ingens are battling for territorial supremacy. In full display colours the two fighting theropods do not notice an approaching allosaur. When the allosaur attacks the Ceratosaurus suddenly flee for their life! With the giant predator in close pursuit one Ceratosaurus takes a gamble and leaps blind off a jagged rock...
Mammals
Artist’s personal work
A montage illustrating the evolution of monotremes, marsupials, and live birth in placental mammals.
A montage illustrating the evolution of monotremes, marsupials, and live birth in placental mammals.
Ruling Reptiles
Artist’s personal work
A montage illustrating the evolution of hard shelled reptile eggs, feathers and the four skull types Anapsids, Synapsids, Diapsids, and Euryapsids).
A montage illustrating the evolution of hard shelled reptile eggs, feathers and the four skull types Anapsids, Synapsids, Diapsids, and Euryapsids).
The Great and the Dead
Private commission
Beneath the shade of a nearby conifer tree lays the dried remains of a half eaten sauropod. The ribs bend upward and inward as silhouettes across a clear, Late Jurassic sky. Suddenly, without warning a young male Allosaurus fragilis charges by, his jaws agape. A battle ensues and, within the hour, a second carcass lies beneath the ancient conifer.
Beneath the shade of a nearby conifer tree lays the dried remains of a half eaten sauropod. The ribs bend upward and inward as silhouettes across a clear, Late Jurassic sky. Suddenly, without warning a young male Allosaurus fragilis charges by, his jaws agape. A battle ensues and, within the hour, a second carcass lies beneath the ancient conifer.
Palaeozoic
The Big Expansion
Artist’s personal work
A montage illustrating the formation of the early universe and the planets of our solar system.
A montage illustrating the formation of the early universe and the planets of our solar system.
The Earth
Artist’s personal work
A montage illustrating the formation of Earth from a molten planet to the modern state, featuring tectonic plate separation and the first oceans.
A montage illustrating the formation of Earth from a molten planet to the modern state, featuring tectonic plate separation and the first oceans.
Fiction
Professor Challenger’s photograph of Iguanodon
Private commission
This photograph confirms Professor Challenger’s claims that prehistoric animals populate the Amazonian plateaus of South America! What other evidence will appear? Watch this space...
This photograph confirms Professor Challenger’s claims that prehistoric animals populate the Amazonian plateaus of South America! What other evidence will appear? Watch this space...
Jess Porter
Private commission
Jess Porter is a character from the Xenomorph science fiction series.
Jess Porter is a character from the Xenomorph science fiction series.
