28″ X 22″ oil on canvas

24″ X 18″ oil on canvas

28″ X 22″ oil on canvas

20″ X 16″ oil on canvas

20″ X 10″ oil on canvas
Retired pensioners having their last cappuccino + one college student (far right)

24″ X 18″ oil on canvas

Ozymandias

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

20″ X 10″ oil on canvas completed toward the end of summer 2020