Tapping The Marvellous!
I will praise Thee O Lord & show forth All Thy Marvellous works!


Year 2019

A Subtle Battle of WITS?

DAVID, The Baby BABEL Fish overpowers GOLIATH, the All-Knowing GOOGLE Drag QUEEN!
(For those who aren't familiar with Douglas Adams's 1979 novel – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Babel Fish is a Universal Translator in the form of a small fish that you stick into your ear)
DAVID, the puny yet wise Baby Babel Fish Baffles & Flummoxes GOLIATH, the arrogant GOOGLE Drag-Queen with the question – Can ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE identify the FRAGRANCE of Plastic FLOWERS?
Apparently GOOGLE doesn’t have all the answers, does it?

Oil / Acrylic on Canvas

7 feet x 5.5 feet


POST MORTEM of the CAT ‘n MOUSE Games people play that KILL any relationship!

A Non-Invasive Psychic AUTOPSY conducted at The Death of A Realtionship!
At The Coroner’s Request & Inquest, only Non-Invasive PET CAT Scans were Performed...
The FINAL Analysis:
The Mall Mouse was madly in love with a High-Society Cat and was suffering from a Classic Case of The Love-sick Blues & Died of a Broken heart!
Sadly, There ain’t NO cure for Love!

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Da Vinci’s LUCID Dream after being abducted by E.T.Aliens during REM Sleep...

Da Vinci’s LUCID Dream...
In the Red-faced Kangaroo Court for Absurd Claims and Corny Causes,
A quirky Vulture trots in with a sparkling, abandoned Asteroid Baby,
And vehemently demands Custody!
The Witchy Moon, high above, exclaimed - Hallelujah!
Oh yes, BUT let’s choose the Gender of the child first!
We have all the L, G, B, T, Q, X and/or Y chromosomes to choose from!
And slyly rigging the outcome, The White Witchy Moon quickly rolls out Coloured GENETICALLY-loaded DICE...
Sipping Rose Petal Tea from a Tiny Teacup (in which a Controversy is quietly brewing ) and levitating HORIZONTALLY, the CHEF’S Bone of Contention is Global Warming!
"The Elephant in the room" (whose Pants are already on Fire) is being studiously ignored by all, he exclaims!
The Elephant himself, nonchalantly continues spraying himself with some COOL Jazz music!
A Dainty Gullible Porky Pirate, Tap-dances on a Xylophone rail-track of Fossil Bones, gets Sucked-Up into A Flying Saucer...
An Oriental Butterfly Wizard JUDGE disinterestedly presides flippantly over the Nonsensical proceedings, flapping his wings occasionally and irritatedly, of course.

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Purple Rose Blooms On Flamingo Day With A Touch Of The Blues

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Wrigley’s Believe it or Not?

Disruptive TYPHOONS were once gentle, loving GIRLS with Goldilocks' curls!
HULA HOOP dance classes for Scrawny Skinny Underweight TYPHOONS to increase their GIRTHS & fatten-up their Waists!.......
As they all Twist & Shout!

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Diwali once more... HOPE floats brightly over a Desolate WASTELAND!

Spaghetti latticed LANTERNS float above a Desolate WASTELAND...
DIWALI, often referred to as the Festival of Lights, is one of the most popular holidays in India.
Diwali celebrates the victory of Light over Darkness!
Good over Evil and the Ultimate triumph of Goodness over Adversities!
T.S.Eliot's landmark modernist poem The Waste Land was published in 1922.
"The Waste Land" refers to the spiritual and intellectual decay of the modern world.

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


SERENDIPITY at NIAGARA, a Kaleidoscopic DISCO Nite-Club...

A curly-haired Baby White Elephant gingerly tiptoes into NIAGARA, a Kaleidoscopic DISCO Nite-Club...
Mesmerized by the Disco music it attempts to dance but stumbles, cascades & FALLS....... spilling all the Delightful SWEET Contents locked-up in its TOBLERONE Trunk!
Colourful Rubic Sugar Cubes, Flat Peppermint Fish, LolliPopsicles and assorted Confectionery Creatures, are scattered all over the place... thus Spreading Sweetness & Good Cheer all around!
White Elephants though apparently of no value, can STILL prove their worth by being Entertaining and Spreading Good Cheer, Happiness and Joy! No?

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Very Fishy GRAFFITI discovered on The FLOOR of The ENIGMATIC Illusion OCEAN!

The WRITING is on The FLOOR, Not on the WALL!!!
The Dead Sea SCRAWLS & Scribblings discovered on the FLOOR of The ENIGMATIC Illusion OCEAN...
(The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered in 1946 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Palestine.
Pandora’s Box lies wide OPEN on the Enigmatic Ocean Floor and it’s ancient, secret contents have Spilled into the Ocean of Collective Consciousness and have dispersed everywhere...
Pandora’s Box – Some container, the contents of which create a lot of problems... that you did not expect!
Contents of Pandora’s Box – The Dead Sea SCRAWLS & Scribblings, Akashic Records, Paradoxes, Manias, Delusions & Psycho-Babble Oxymorons, etc.
The Akashic Records - are basically a record of what will happen, what is happening, or has happened. Everything we see, hear, do, touch, smell, feel & experience is faithfully recorded & stored in a Cosmic Memory Bank of KARMA.
Karma – Whatsoever you Sow, so will you precisely reap, good and bad alike.
Oxymorons - A figure of speech or phrase that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other, such as a deafening silence (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true, pretty ugly, etc.)
Neon LED Signs & LCD Reflections Pop-Up from the Mystical Depths of The ENIGMATIC Illusion OCEAN!
It’s all Psycho Babble Nonsense to me!
P.S. Y.ou C.an’t H.umour O.xymorons!!!

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Chitty Chitty BANG BANG – A Clash of Titans!

A CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) constructed Event!
The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation nowadays about how the universe began...
The Big Bang is NOT a Bang in the conventional sense of two or more objects colliding with each other resulting in a Big BANG!
But the Big Bang is rather an EXPLOSION radiating outwards in Infinitesimally SLOW MOTION and in all directions...
Since that event was supposed to have occurred millions, billions of years ago, there is no conceivable way of practically verifying it ever happened in the first place!
Keeping all this in mind, just for fun, I came up with my own Big Bang Theory and named it – Chitty Chitty Bang BANG! A Clash of Titans!
Maybe a Clash of Fragile Egos of Make-Believe Gods in an Imagined Heaven squabbling over the technicalities of creating A Universe?
Who knows really?
So this painting is a rather Whimsical view of that BIG BANG event!!!
A Whimsical VIRTUAL (Computer Generated, Thought-Experiment) SIMULATION of The Big Bang!

Oil / Acrylic On Canvas

7 feet x 5 feet


Suspended Animation 1

The temporary cessation of most vital functions without death, as in a dormant seed or a hibernating animal.

Acrylic On Canvas

4 feet x 3 feet


Suspended Animation 2

Acrylic On Canvas

4 feet x 3 feet


Suspended Animation 3

Acrylic On Canvas

4 feet x 3 feet


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