I received a letter from myself the other day.
What was this
Do I have another me ?
With writing habits so similee?
On opening the post it was clear
the envelope was indeed from me
via liverpool art academy,
to partake in new exhibition
"Alice in Wonderland"

I Wonder" oil on canvas 50 cm / 38 cm

You've just missed an exhibition at Gostins Arcade, Hanover Street, Liverpool by Will Simmons and myself, Peter Barker.

This painting, "All Roads" oil on canvas 40 - 30 cm, was done with an eye on an art market at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool, scheduled for June 22, 2008,
Unfortunately the wind blew across the ' piazza' and the assembled artists work was blown into the wilderness and their trestle tables were tossed asunder like chafe in the wind, by 11.30 only a few remained. Fortunately my "art" shopping trolley was not greatly affected by gods angry wrath but the whole event was a 'blow out' as it were, thanks to the chap who bought a photocopy of Octopool and to the woman who purchased the weird dockside collage with the naked roman statues with whips and to the geezer who bought my dream It's Over There. By one o clock there were perhaps 4 of us left . by 2-30 I was in the pub.

Thanks, Joey, for getting me there and to Bill for getting rid of the shopping trolley!

Will Simmons and myself have an exhibition on at Gostins Buildings, Hanover Streel, Liverpool. only on for another week or so, so you'll have to go soon or it will be to late.
(to late)

"Terranostra" oil on Octangular canvas painted for Ed

gaily bedight a gallant knight through sunshine and through shadow

had journied long singing a song in search of eldorado..........................

"GALAXY" oil on canvas 40cm / 30cm

Chaos within order life evolves at borders

"IMMERSION" oil on canvas 80cm / 67cm

FLOWER POWER

ANOTHER DAY

"IMMERSION" oil on canvas (name courtesy bill drennan.)

I sit indoors upon the floors stare at the walls and the walls stare back at me
I'm seeing sunshine I'm seeing colours fly where aint no colours should be.
Shadows on the floorboards patterns in the sea, light on far horizons, electrons in the knee.
there was a knee, it was a knee, a knee is all it was, it was a knee

"Octopool" oil on canvas 106cm-73 cm.

Hey You Humans what are you doing, sailing along and being so cruel.
You guys with the sticks are making me sick with your laziness, fear and greed.
You'll drag us all down with your false competitions and visions of wisdom.
The future is negative freedom, for the mass of the many
" just tow the line and don't dream."

Still in the library growing backwards, still waiting for a home broadband connection.

"Barallu." oil on canvas.
Close up of elemental aluminium

With so much space
Through which to stare
My gaze grows inwards

No one can reach this deep inside
And staring out the world goes by
And in this life I live within I have to laugh
I have to grin.

The next three paintings all have CUBA in their titles, this is not a geographical location but rather a coming together of feeling in an abstract geometric fluid surreal sort of mathematical way Scroll On ... ... ... ... ...

CUBA
oil on canvas 100cm-59cm
three squared, a cube, three circle spheres numbers, patterns, opposites, crossing borders,


CUBA(If only they could meet!)
oil on canvas 109cm-29cm,
crocodiles hold eggs without undue pressure




CUBA (At least three ways to do everything!)
oil on canvas 40cm-29cm
appearing, materialising apparently out of thin air which is not so thin at all but part of the quantum wave field from which all "pops" real!

Good afternoon World, and all the people on it,
except political psychopaths, and the like who have been living on
"Spot the Planet" oil on canvas 56cm-50cm.






Listening to the radio
people speaking what they
believe they know
I know nothing, nothing does not exist,
I do not know what's coming next
Listening to the radio

People please

"Let Go" oil on canvas, 25cm-30cm









of our fearful, greedy, lazy leaders are not yet capable of moving towards





"Another Place" oil on canvas, 58cn-48cm.
fortunately


"It's all Relative" oil on canvas, no size available,












does that matter?