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I got completely absorbed in making this Blog nearly twenty years ago. It was full of paintings, writing, charcoal drawings and small animations. Then life took over. Finding it again and beginning it again has made me feel unexpectedly young and excited.

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Shower Gel

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ Yeah I didn't really think this one through too much as I thought it might spoil my fun. You know how they say your body is 70% water(is it more ?) and the water in your body completely replaces itself after 6 weeks? Well when I painted th

Chief Albatross

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ Warning: This passage contains some excruciatingly painful puns. Craig Tangley, the chief executive of camera retailer Jessys, became the latest director to quit the struggling company after releasing a video of himself on You Tube reveali

Durga

This is Durga a Hindu Goddess. I apologise if I have not painted the right number of arms.(I read somewhere she has 10). A well as being the wife of Shiva and raising four kids (Karttikeya, Ganesh, Saraswati, and Lakshmi) she also had a stunning career slaying

Durga's Distant Cousin

This is not Durga the Hindu Goddess it is a Goddess that I made up but I really do like Durga a lot. A well as being the wife of Shiva and raising four kids (Karttikeya, Ganesh, Saraswati, and Lakshmi) Durga also had a stunning career slaying demons, and that

Photo- Synth-Itis

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ If trees suddenly started getting a disease that slowly turned them into humans  should we try and cure them or encourage them?

Vulture Carriage

Oil on canvas 8″x10″. How right or wrong would it be if we could train or genetically modify vultures to become air taxis?

Aggi Aye-Aye.

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″. This is a hybrid of Philip Aggee the late former CIA agent and the new aye-aye born in Bristol zoo. Philip Agee and the aye-aye have something in common in that they both have been persecuted. Philip Agee had to leave his native USA as

Elf Keeper

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ Infosists, the giant Indian outsourcing firm is now innovating a scheme that will mean call centres being run by elves. Infosists have spent $1 billion dollars this year recruiting elves from Eastern Europe, Mexico and China to study in

The Editors

The spelling and grammar has improved a lot on theclaytonarms.com lately. This is because 4 editors have been appointed . My mum and dad my brother and my pet octopus.