Anthony Oliver : artwork

A dream age in 1950's America big cars , power suits , innocence , money, power, Dichotomy .

A mother & son on the porch wearing their Sunday best clothes

A drugstore street scene

Headquarters of the CIA

An aeroplane

A portrait of a young woman getting ready to go out on a Friday evening .

A painting of the tunnel where Princess Diana died . Light & Dark contrast .

A crypt . Where do we go when we die whether kings or queens or serfs ? The Sun shines ever on .

Lauren Bacall is painted on the magazine cover upside down on the desk .She is powerful. The editor is sitting in the back office late at night .He is not so remembered as she is now.

Would you buy a car from this man ?

1 of a series of paintings based around a character called Mary : Earth , Gaia , Mother , Madre .. a necessary guardian angel .

Wealth and class and social grandstanding in the 1960's

Without trees we would be , in the most literal sense , without roots . In the UK coppiced woods can be dated as far back as 5000 B.C.

But the Poppy is painted glass; it never glows so brightly as when the sun shines through it. Wherever it is seen-against the light or with the light – always, it is a flame, and warms the wind like a blown ruby.

A memory to a trip , the beauty of Ireland and the deceptive beauty of "grey" .

A view over Budapest .

Marilyn Monroe surrounded by men men men . Journalists , photographers , admirers , stalkers . All feeding off her mouths biting pieces like piranhas .

A hummingbird coming to feed on ortolana berries , 2 young women , some secret writing and a partially hidden sculpture .

Masks always make me think of Ensor .One of my favourite painters . El Baron !

Absolve us : we are , after all , fallen from the stars that made us and thus deeply flawed .