Paintings :: Grosse is a geek

'Dennis - Rattenvanger Cat' - Netherlandish cat wearing armour, holding heraldic shield and standing in countryside in front of wall. Early pigments oils on quarter-sawn solid oak panel with sunken field - mordant gilded on pastiglia 24 carat gold leaf and pure silver leaf with a woven pastiglia border with animal figures in each corner and mordant gilded tin leaf with pastiglia banderole with lettering. Copyright (c)2020 Paul Alan Grosse

'Margaret' - Netherlandish alien painted in traditional Dutch headdress and brocade top with fir-lined collar and sleeves. Frame with trompe l'oeil engraved lettering in sunken field alien script and pastiglia fingers invading into the real world from inside the frame. Copyright (c)2020 Paul Alan Grosse

$'Misty' - Netherlandish cat in jester outfit. Early pigments oils on quarter-sawn solid oak panel in solid oak hand carved frame with polychromy of fractured stone with gold-carrying quartz intrusions - mordant gilded 24 carat gold leaf - with trompe l'oeil engraved lettering in sunken field. Copyright (c)2020 Paul Alan Grosse$

Achilles. Abstract encaustic mixed media with single-pigment colours and gilded with schlag metal on gesso-coated 100 percent cotton rag Khadi watercolour paper, signed in 24 carat gold metalpoint. Copyright (c)2020 Paul Alan Grosse

Bernadette at 62. Hand-carved, quarter-sawn, solid oak with gessoed linen, gilded with 24k gold with punchwork and early pigment tempera. Copyright (c)2020 Paul Alan Grosse

Bernadette at 61. Gilded 24k gold and very early pigment water colours and shell gold on handmade papyrus in a frame painted with genuine very early pigments. Copyright (c)2019 Paul Alan Grosse

'Jeremy' - Black cat in the style of painting of Thomas Wentworth, holding a golden staff with rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. Copyright (c)2018 Paul Alan Grosse

Bernadette at 60. Gilded 24k gold and early pigment water colours on handmade paper in a hand carved frame painted with genuine early pigments. Copyright (c)2018 Paul Alan Grosse

'Olivia and Kitten' - 4.25x6.1" - Mother of Everything - water gilded 24k gold and early pigment oils on poplar panel. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Ruth' illuminated - 6x8" - Iron gall ink, gold leaf and early pigment llumination. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Lawrence' 6 week old kitten - 12.7x17.8cm - oil on poplar panel. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Zeedieren #1' - 20x24" - oil on stretched canvas. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Stream of Thought' diptych - 2x 24x36" - oil on stretched canvas. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'The Bedroom at Derby' - 25.4x30.5cm - oil on canvas panel. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Crossing The Brook' - 50x60cm - oil on stretched canvas. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Romy the Jester' (2017) - 30x40cm - oil on poplar panel. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Dieren #1' - 50x60cm - oil on Canvas. Copyright (c)2017 Paul Alan Grosse

'Bella' - Miniature of one of our cats in traitonal Netherlands headdress and blue and gold brocade coat with ermine trim. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

'Paddy' - Black and white cat in the style of painting of Thomas Wentworth, holding a salamander of enamelled gold with emeralds and diamonds. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

'Paddy' - Black and white cat in the style of painting of Thomas Wentworth, holding a salamander of enamelled gold with emeralds and diamonds. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

'Olivia' - One of our cats in the style of Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, the Mona Lisa. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

'Dennis' - One of our cats in the netherlandish style of the mid- to late-15th centuary with a hint of Rogier Van der Weyden's paintings added. In reality, this cat is brutal: his idea of getting you to wake up and let him out in the morning it so stuff his paw under the duvet and sink his claws into the sole of your foot and as far as dead things to bring home as presents, his ideas are on the scale of rats rather than mice. He is big and strong but very soft. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

'Olivia' - One of our cats in the style of Jan Van Eyke's portrait of his wife, along with a healthy dose of Rogier Van der Weyden's paintings added. Copyright (c)2016 Paul Alan Grosse

Vincent's Van Gogh's famous painting - 'The Scream' or 'The Shriek'. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

'Queen Maud - the 'Mouse' portrait' - One of our cats style of Queen Elizabeth the first's 'Ermine' portrait. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Varanasi ke liye Turner ki yatra - Turner's visit to Varanasi. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

'Romy' - One of the kittens as a Jester in the style of Elizabethan paintings. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

A smaller version of 'Thought' needed for another room - Mondrianesque painting in the style of Kandinski. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

A Mondrianesque painting in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

The Mona Lisa painted in the style of Picasso's Analytical Cubism. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Vincent's Van Gogh's famous painting - 'The Scream' or 'The Shriek'. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Man with Double Bass - homage to Picasso's analytical Cubism. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Thought. The strict order of the Mondrian is digested by the insanity of the Kandinsky. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

I needed a proof of concept for an idea I had about fusing the strict order of the Mondrian with the organic chaos of Kandinsky's improvisations and this was it. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Improvisation'. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Improvisation'. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Improvisation'. Copyright (c)2015 Paul Alan Grosse

Every home needs a Mondrian and if you can't buy one, make one of your own. Copyright (c)2005 Paul Alan Grosse

Starey cat. Copyright (c)1988 Paul Alan Grosse

Apotheosis of the aquarian bigots. Copyright (c)1985 Paul Alan Grosse

'De te fabula narratur'. There is a map of west Germany in there - post-Room-101 European Tour 1984. Copyright (c)1984 Paul Alan Grosse

With meat concumption suspended, an on-the-road diet of beans and chips prevailed as we toured around Scotland in the band 'Room 101' in the winter of 1983. Painted mainly in the Christmas to new year break of 1983 and finished the following January. Motorway service station food, touring, a new diet, Dingwall and 'YCHCYASDTAWC' in a bar. Copyright (c)1984 Paul Alan Grosse

'Temporal Trimorphism.' I liked the idea of a screened image having a dark and a light image as well as the image from the screening - this shows the three phases of development of a butterfly from caterpilar to butterfly with pupa in the screened image. Copyright (c)1983 Paul Alan Grosse