Panchromatica

I am a self taught artist and photographer. I took my first photograph at the age of 17 and some 45 years later I'm still at it. About 5 years ago, as an accidental outcome of restoring some old slides, I began to make digital paintings. I have a photographic archive of at least 10,000 images, but I still keep taking new ones, although largely now as source material for my digital paintings.

As well as digital painting, I get messy with the real stuff, make mosaics, collage and jewellery. I'm now really enjoying printmaking and especially love monoprinting and collagraphs.

I also sell my pictures from various sites:

*my own web site (http://www.panchromatica.co.uk)

*Etsy (http://panchromatica.etsy.com)

*ArtFire (http://panchromatica.artfire.com)

*DaWanda (http://panchromatica.dawanda.com)

I read and listen to music a lot. I have no idea how many books I have - it must be '000s. I never seem to be able to get rid of one without acquiring 2 more!

Everything I send comes from a smoke free and animal free house.

Almost anything musical - my MP3 player has music from the 1920s through to the present day.

Jazz and Blues

Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, B B King, Lena Horne, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Otis Rush, Dave Brubeck, Fats Waller, Don Ellis, Dinah Washington

Rock and Pop

Stones, Beatles, Who, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison, Chris de Burgh, Catatonia, Republica, Tom Jones, Fairport Convention, Eva Cassidy, Johnny Cash, Cream, Supremes, Temptations, 10000 Maniacs, Jefferson Airplane, Warren Zevon

Classics

Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Piano music, Elgar, Copland, Verdi, Puccini

Again almost anything from the early days to the present day, so:

Vertigo, Rear Window, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Casablanca, Strictly Ballroom, Matrix series, Predator series, Alien series, (but not the awful Alien v Predator), Terminator series, O Brother where art thou!, L A Confidential, LA Story, Usual Suspects, Bringing up baby, Its a Wonderful Life, Leaving Las Vegas, Parallax View, Die Hard, Men in Black, Enemy of the State, La Jetee, Still Crazy, Inherit the Wind, Manon des Source

Classics

Dickens

Crime and Thrillers

Ian Rankin, Stieg Larrsen, Len Deighton, John Le Carre, Henning Mankell, Leslie Charteris

Science Fiction

Stephen Donaldson, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Ian M Banks, Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov. Urusula LeGuin

Fantasy

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Stephen Donaldson (again), Tolkien, Thorne Smith

Historical

Patrick O'Brien, C S Forester,

Everything else

Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Neville Shute

Poetry

Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost, Arthur Waley,

Favourite Titles

Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, (Dickens) Trustee from the Toolroom (Shute), Good Companions (J B Priestley), The Dispossessed (LeGuin), Time Travellers Wife

Dr Who, Torchwood, Ashes to Ashes, Dalziel and Pascoe, New Tricks, NCIS, CSI NY, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, Firefly, Moonlighting (a looong time ago), Mentalist,

I'm getting into assemblage, so I have accumulated a host of odd 'things'. I can't think of what else to call them, but have a look here: (http://www.ipernity.com/doc/panchromatica/5300584).

I also make collage, so I am always picking up random images and illustrations, especially in other languages and scripts.

I make ATCs both digitally and OOAK, using found material, cut up prints, paint and whatever is to hand at the time. Take your cues from the fact that I like ATCs first as art, and only incidentally for swapping.

Ephemera, especially vintage or in languages other than English or in other scripts.

Maps and charts

Old photos, especially of workplaces or street scenes (look at http://www.shorpy.com/ for what I mean), school photos, carte de visite etc.

Interesting textures, peeling paint, rust, faded signs or graphics.

I would prefer not to receive explicitly faith based material, although I am happy with imagery - icons, the Buddha, Hindu pantheon etc.

Also I like Dia del Muerte type images but not Halloween. (Yes I know I'm picky...)

I don't like 'cute' so kawaii, big eyed girls, fairies and other fey or whimsy stuff are not for me please. (Unless they are the sort of fairy who would live in a Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman novel.)

I don't use stickers, so any sent as extras would not be used. Sorry.

No explicitly faith based material like prayers or texts, although I am happy with imagery - things like icons, the Buddha, Hindu pantheon, etc.