Mike Fryer, paintings – abstract
  
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  Click on a thumbnail for a larger view. All canvases are 'thin' (about 17 mm deep) and require a frame unless the depth is given.  
     
'Day 1' of 'days of Creation'  

'Day 1' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Mike Fryer

The dark purple formlessness provides the background to the rich blue of the deep. Above the deep is separated light shining as green with the pure white of Spirit hovering over the green.
     
'Day 2' of 'days of Creation'  

'Day 2' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Water above and water below with expanse of sky between them. The sky disappears into the distance as the horizontal bands get closer.
     
'Day 3' of 'days of Creation'  

'Day 3' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

The lands and seas are separated: see the bands of colour representing this organisation. The land produces vegetation and trees: notice the multi-layers of coloured spots showing the seeds of life.
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'Day 4' of 'days of Creation'

'Day 4' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Sun and moon, day and night, light and dark. And in the dark shines the stars. moon changes during the month, sun changes during the day.
     
'Day 5' of 'days of Creation'  

'Day 5' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Representing sea and sky: fish and birds. Follow the trails of fish in the sea and birds in the sky. See the silver as the fish swim and the gold as the sun shines on the birds. They are required to multiply and the red shows their bloodline.
     
'Day 6' of 'days of Creation'  

'Day 6' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Multi-layered mottling of earth colours over which are many footprints going in all directions; some large some small some uniform some not. Over all these are the blue prints of Adams and the red prints of Eve.
     
'Day 7' of 'Days of Creation'  

'Day 7' from 'Days of Creation'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Creation is complete. The earth complete in its vast array and the heavens in their vast array. See the construction of the universe; the design. Within this are spheres representing the six days of creativity and the seventh in centre is at rest.
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pic of 'Faith' from 1 Cor 13: 13  

'Faith' from '1 Cor 13: 13'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Even faith, that is small (such as a small seed), can do great things for God (such as grow into a large tree for birds to sit in). Here faith is represented by a red seed and a bush by the green organic shape.
     
pic of 'Hope' from 1 Cor 13: 13  

'Hope' from '1 Cor 13: 13'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

We do not hope for what we can see but we hope for what we cannot see. Our hope is beyond the different barriers and obstructions through which we glimpse our salvation. Diffuse and dark green, blue and red with glimpse of white.
     
pic of 'Love' from 1 Cor 13: 13  

'Love' from '1 Cor 13: 13'

600 x 600 mm, acrylic on canvas board. Photo: Tanya Uroda

Love is sacrificial and uniting, the joining of two to become one. The red and green integrate in form and pattern.
     
  an abstract painting - down the middle is a white band with a silver foil, slightly ragged band to its right, on the left is an area of deep reds with many layers of paint giving a wavy and mottled effect, on the right is a similar, but darker, area of blue.  

'Way, Truth and Life'

800 x 800 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic and foil on canvas

This painting was short-listed for the Arundell Trust Art Exhibition at St. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate, London, 2004.

 
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'Study of Blue'

610 x 610 mm, acrylic on canvas

more to come in this series...

an abstract painting that explores the colour blue  
 
an abstract painting that explores the colour red

'Study of Red'

610 x 610 mm, acrylic on canvas

more to come in this series...

 
'Jazz 1' an abstract painting showing different coloured shapes interweaving like the sound in jazz

'Jazz 1'

610 x 457 mm, acrylic on board

 
 
   
'Heaven and Earth' an abstract painting in which five horizontal bands of colour represent the truth that where your treasure is there will be your heart.

'Heaven and Earth'

900 x 300 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Short-listed for the Corner Art Prize, 2001, London.
Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
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'C1(EX20:3)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C1(EX20:3)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
 
'C2(EX20:4)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C2(EX20:4)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
   
'C3(EX20:7)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C3(EX20:7)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
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'C4(EX20:8)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C4(EX20:8)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
   
'C5(EX20:12)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C5(EX20:12)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
   
'C6(EX20:13)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C6(EX20:13)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
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'C7(EX20:14)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C7(EX20:14)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
   
'C8(EX20:15)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C8(EX20:15)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
   
'C9(EX20:16)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C9(EX20:16)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.
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'C10(EX20:17)' an abstract in the series of ten canvases entitled 'The Commandments'

'C10(EX20:17)' one of a series of ten entitled 'The Commandments'

500 x 500 mm (40 mm deep), acrylic on canvas. SOLD

Now in the Permanent Collection of ICI Corporate Centre, Manchester Square, London.