• Hell is Empty
  • Antony Gormley
  • The Screaming House
  • Richard Hamilton
  • Munch Studio
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Full Fathom Five
  • People
  • Skisse
  • Barnett Newman
  • Sir Peter Blake
  • Ken Russell
  • Sir Bob Geldof
  • AO Poetry
  • Screw
  • Ted Hughes
  • Little Boy

© Alan O'Cain

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  • Melis
    Melis
    2009
    acrylic and gold leaf on board
    95 x 49cm
    Private collection.
  • Patrick Stewart
    It wasn't him it never was
    2007
    acrylic, sand and lacquer on board with hand painted slip and mount
    62 x 64.5cm (including mount - not shown)
    Collection Patrick Stewart.
  • Jaxon
    "JAXON" (negative/positive)
    2009
    leftt image: pen, ink and acrylic on paper created by Alan O'Cain (15 x 9.5cm)
    rightt image: digital negative created by David Jackson
    David Jackson, former saxophone player with Van der Graaf Generator.
  • Ellington
    Ellington
    2005
    acrylic on board with hand painted mount
    55 x 52cm (including mount - not shown)
    Collection Uri Geller.
  • Mary
    The Paper Lantern (Mary)
    2008
    acrylic and sand on board
    61 x 44.5cm
    Private collection.
  • Ralph
    Sir Ralph Richardson
    2008
    acrylic on board
    57.5 x 42cm
    Private collection.
  • Stan
    Stan O'Cain (from memory)
    2010
    pen, ink and acrylic on paper
    15 x 12cm
    Collection the artist.
    Stan O'Cain (26th May 1927 - 23rd November 2009).
  • Juliet
    Black Juliet (Munch's Atelier)
    2008
    ink and coloured pencil on paper
    18 x 17cm
    Collection the artist.
  • Sophie
    Angel (Self-portrait beneath Sophie Munch)
    2010
    acrylic and pencil on board
    91.5 x 61cm
    Collection the artist.
  • Hemingway
    The Black Christ (Hemingway at Schruns)
    2007
    acrylic, lacquer and sand on board with hand painted slip and mount
    61 x 63.5cm (including mount - not shown)
    Private collection.
  • Bob
    Geldof at Hay x 2
    2007
    ink on paper
    13.5 x 17cm
    Collection the artist.
  • Ken
    Ken Russell (2nd version)
    2009/2010
    acrylic, sand and wax crayon on board
    81.5 x 81.5cm
    Work in progress.
  • Sylvie Valayre
    Voluptuous Pleasure of Power
    (after Verdi's Macbeth Glyndebourne 2007 and Henry Moore's Draped Reclining Woman 1957-8)
    2007
    acrylic on board with hand painted slip
    67 x 87cm
    Painting on long term loan to Glyndebourne House.
  • Bacon
    Portrait of Francis Bacon (III)
    2008
    ink on paper
    10 x 8.5cm
    Collection the artist.
  • VW
    VW (portait of Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    2008
    acrylic and sand on board
    64 x 64cm
    Collection the artist.