Surrealist fish ladder

This is a surrealist image rendered in coloured pencils on blue card. The format is for an art catalogue cover.

Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard

This is a painting I did last year using acrylic on card, with an impasto base.

The idea was to create a stylised picture based on a palindrome. The picture had to work the right way up and upside down, like the design for the backs of playing cards.

My palindrome was "drab as a fool, aloof as a bard".