Welcome to the Mr E World Gallery. There are currently 11 exhibitions
for you to visit
Simply left click on the icon to the left of a title. And remember, many of the images can be purchased as posters from the Mr E World SHOP. The last exhibition (POSTERS), at the bottom of this page, hilights the best of these.

To my mind, a great album is not just brilliant music, but also, instantly recognizable cover artwork. Because I had three very much older siblings, I grew up with iconic album covers burned into my consciousness. This was in the days of vinyl, when album covers were not just beautiful but large. Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Led Zeppelin IV, Ogden"s Nut Gone Flake, Tales of Topographic Oceans... the list just goes on and on. Covers which were as imaginative and inspirational as the music they adorned.

The creation of covers for my own music has not been without its frustrations and challenges, mostly because I deeply desired to create art that would impress others as much as I had been impressed by the great designs of the past. But though at times frustrating or challenging, it has also been a lot of fun, and I do believe I can say, hopefully without being boastful, that I have succeeded in creating covers that are imaginative, inspirational and beautiful. I hope you enjoy them.

The front, back and inside images for the album "Freak from the Streets", can be seen either on the "Freak from the Streets" album page, or in the "CD and band poster" exhibition, here in the Mr E World Gallery. But I thought it worth while creating an exhibition for the individual images that were created for the inner fold out.

"Freak from the Streets" is a concept album. The twenty one songs that comprise it tell a story. I shan't go into all the detail here, for the background to the album can be found on the "Freak..." album page, in the music section of this site. It is enough to say that, I thought it would be a good idea to create an image for each of the songs, then to incorporate all twenty one images into one grand image.

Of course, the problem with this idea is that, though the finished product is worth the effort, many of the images end up being drastically cut or distorted to fit into the final template. Many of them, I feel, are great images individually, and worthy of being seen in their unedited, original form. Some of the following images (Nothing, Go go getter, Let the good times roll, Your time has come, True friends are) are amongst my very best works. For that reason, several of them are available as posters from the Mr E World Shop.

If you've not yet read "For the Name of the Wizard", now might be a good time to. It is available for viewing in the Stories section of this site. The images in this exhibition were created nearly ten years after the drawings that comprise the illustrations in the book. A friend suggested he would like to film the drawings and that we could turn the story into an alternative kind of "animation".

I really liked this idea, but quickly realized that, if the eye was to be kept interested during the narration of the story, a great many more images were going to need to be drawn. The next couple of months saw me drawing the pictures that follow.

After the alternate title (which is the next image), the first five pictures are details from a picture called "Furfull Wandering", which follows. The next eleven are details from a drawing called "Furfull Lost". The last image in this exhibition, is a promotional poster. It is preceded by six details from it. I have included these details because, in these larger, more complex works, much detail is usually missed.

I hope one day, to finish the animation (the first half will be available in the Film section of this site shortly). But finishing it actually involves rather a lot of work. Many adventures befall Furfull between the time he meets up with the Vikings and the time he returns home, triumphant. It is also my hope that I shall one day publish a second edition of "For the Name of the Wizard", which includes all the illustrations that follow (and perhaps those I have yet to create for the second part of the animation). Until that day arrives, this exhibition will be the only place these images can be seen.

Of all the art I've ever created, this is my favourite piece. In time, I would like to expand this exhibition and write a great deal more about this image. There is a lot of history to "Yetzirah". The word itself comes from the Hebrew Qabalah, and means world of formation. I thought it an apt title, because the drawing is of a world where nothing is inanimate. The very earth and stones live and breathe and have personalities. Hence the faces everywhere.

This is the world of dreaming, the realm of imagination, the astral plane. Here you will meet all the archetypes of myth and legend. Here too, you will find magicians and saints on their way to the Godhead, and here you will encounter the madness of those poor souls who, cut off from their earthly bodies, are lost, forever adrift in a world where nothing is constant, except inconsistency.

"The magic of midsummer", is a story I wrote in my early twenties. The complete verse for it can be found in STORIES. The illustrations that make up this exhibition, only cover the first part of the story. In its totally complete form, it also includes, within it, "For the name of the Wizard" and another project called "A Mythical Bestiary".

Looking back at these drawings now, I think they have a naivety that is either charming or emarrassing, I cannot decide which. Interestingly, a few years ago when I attempted to imitate the style in which I had drawn them (hoping to complete the book for which they were intended) I found I could not.

Some I like far more than others, but I have decided, in the end, to include them all, if only for the sake of completeness.

Balance, symmetry, colour, light. These elements combine in complex geometric patterns in the following images. These are some of my favourite designs. They are reminiscent of eastern meditative images, called mandalas, so that's what I thought I'd call them.

Mandalas, when stared at in a relaxed manner, induce deeply peaceful states of mind. They have the ability to still the continuous flow of mental noise and allow the observer to connect with his/her deeper sense of being.

At this point, I'd like to make some really intelligent statements about spiritual traditions that use such visual images, or about the unconscious mind being tapped into and its creative energies released for physical, mental and spiritual healing and growth, but... oh I don't know, at the end of the day, I just think they're very pretty. I hope you like them too.

It happened one day that I found myself sitting before Pascal (my laptop) procrastinating. I cannot now, remember what it was I was putting off, but it must have been something to do with images, for I began playing with the software I was using, and over the next couple of hours created the following images.

I saved the results of this C.G. doodling, not thinking much of it. Then, about a week later, when I was going through my files, spring cleaning, I came upon them again. The passage of time allowed me to look at the images with fresh perception and I liked what I saw. I liked it a lot!

There were many more images than are presented here. These are what I consider to be the best of them. Some of the simplest are my personal favourites. Stare at them for a while, and your eyes and brain will start to play interesting tricks on you.

A great deal of my art has come about through doodling, and much while I've been procrastinating. The following images are, however, the result of my first computer doodle. I hope you like them.

The images in this exhibition are one offs, created either purely for my own amusement (the Terang post office, genesis, self portrait and the various paintings) or for some project or other (Confessions of a busker cover, Planet cover - Planet is the student newspaper for the Geelong campus of Deakin University, ).

The drawing of the fisherman is interesting because it is the only drawing I have ever done with my left hand. I had broken my right arm at the time, and wanted to reassure myself, that if ever I were to permanently loose the use of it, I would still be able to draw.

Although this website was begun as a vehicle for me to publish, promote and distribute my art, music and writing, its creation necessitated the drawing and painting of many images, which I am very fond of in their own right. The "mr e world logo", "Welcome" and "Home" images and those for FILM, THOUGHTS, MUSIC etc are pictures that I am very proud of, and so I thought it would be nice to give them an exhibition of their own. After all, because there are so many parts of the site, it is quite possible someone may visit it many times and never see certain of them.

Also included are images that are no longer on the site for one reason or another. It may be that a page needed updating, but some of the art work remains interesting or pleasing to look at.

Building mr e world, really has been a mighty job. Sometimes, when I'm feeling down on myself (usually just after having looked through a collection of some other artist's works), I like to flick again through some of the images in this and the other exhibitions, to remind myself of how productive I have been over the last few years. Anyway, I hope you like my work...

This exhibition will not be up and running for quite a while yet. Eventually, it will contain some avant - garde clips, simple in design, but (at least I, think) visually effective.

The images in this exhibition are a collection taken from the other exhibitions. Each of them is available from SHOP (left) as a poster or print.