Gordon Render

Acrylic on Canvas. 76cm x76cm.

From a photograph I took in Sri Lanka about ten years ago. I decided to paint an Asian Elephant cutting out all the "elephanty" things - trunk, tusks, big ears, etc. What you are left with is a wise old face.

Acrylic on MDF board. 61cm x 96cm.

A portrait of Diane Arbus: Her view of the world changed mine and will change anybody's if they care to spend any time looking at her photographs. Amazing.

Her suicide was a great loss to the art of photography.

Acrylic on Canvas. 80cm x 60cm.

It’s a portrait of a man I photographed. I just liked the picture…

Acrylic paint on canvas. 60cm x 90cm.

Another iconic photograph. I stuck it on a sound stage…

I can't wait for this to be used as evidence that nobody went to the moon... Apparently the hoaxers will believe anything

Acrylic paint, cord and feather on canvas. 60cm x 80cm.

When I worked as a lighting cameraman, a skyhook would have solved a lot of lighting problems. Searched everywhere and never found one…

Acrylic paint on MDF board. 1220cm x 610cm.

This painting came about when I realised the cost of each missile hanging under a modern jet was about the same as a high-end Italian sports car...

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Acrylic paint on canvas. 102cm x 76cm.

One from my sky series. Wherever I am, I photograph the sky. It's the same sky all over the world but completely different all over the world...

Acrylic paint on canvas. 102cm x 76cm.

One of a series of sky pictures. Based on two photographs I took in South Africa in 2012.

Acrylic paint on canvas. 102cm x 76cm.

Another of the sky series…

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Acrylic Paint on MDF Board. 122cm x 87cm.

One of my favourite "pop art" paintings is Roy Lichtenstein's WHAAM! in the Tate Modern here in London. By way of saying thanks to Lichtenstein for giving the world that painting, I did a series of paintings using the explosion. This is one of them...

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Acrylic on canvas. 102cm x 76cm.

Every urban skyline on the planet is riddled with these things. They are so ubiquitous nobody sees them anymore. I like them - they are a symbol of every city’s future.

Acrylic paint on canvas. 60cm x 80cm.

Another crane painting… Awful pun.

Acrylic on Canvas. 80cm x 52cm.

I saw a photograph of a woman firefighter in the Cape Times newspaper, fighting the wildfires on Table Mountain during the summer of 2015. I loved the photograph so used it to pay homage to this amazing person.

Acrylic paint on canvas. 60cm x 80cm.

I really like the song by Loudon Wainwright III and I spent my youth swimming competitively so…

10 points if you spot the spelling mistake. Sorry, Loudon…

Acrylic paint on canvas. 50cm x 80cm.

Sometimes I am taken by some aspect in one of my photographs. In this case it was the eye-watering colours. So I decided to play with it in black and white. This painting is paired with a print of the photograph.

Acrylic paint on Canvas. 80cm x 60cm.

Based on a photo I took in South Africa. Initially, this had a background showing the sweltering savanna but I thought they looked cold so I changed it to a ‘white-out”.

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Acrylic paint on MDF board. 87cm x 61cm.

Another painting dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! This one of Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the Bell X1.