Cake Three, Top Dog

I am a potter as well as a painter, and one of my aspirations Dog is for my work in both practices to talk to each other so that the paintings are referenced in the ceramic work, and vice versa. 

As a surrealist painter my visual imagery is symbolic and expressive, informed by my imagination, and is for the curious, and for those that enjoy a bit of mystery and the search for meaning. 

When I create a painting, I am aware for the need of balance, and one of the ways I think about this is to hold in mind three archetypal energies of Playfulness, Tenderness and Fierceness. The work may be predominately any of these, but there must be elements of the other two energies present for energetic balance. I decided to utilise this approach in the development of the cakes. 

The idea of using cakes as a stage for some of the symbols in my paintings seemed to fit. The cakes in themselves are playful. I’ve had a lot of fun making them. An event involving a cake is usually tender and celebratory. Fierceness is represented in very focussed attention and intention, and is present in the stories behind each of the symbols. 

Its a natural progression to now paint the cake pots I've made as some whimsical still life paintings. 

This painting is framed and ready to hang .