Artworks

The circular forms may be images of the meaning encapsulatd in these universal symbols

Perhaps this picture shows us that each and every leaf is worth attending to. Looked at closely each leaf is a solid form. Stand away from the picture, and it is a pattern with three centres to be found?

IAlan was enthralled by the image at the start of Dante's Inferno, in which the poet, at the midpoint of his life, finds himself in a dark wood

Alan painted images from each of the three parts of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy". All three can be seen in the chapel of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

For special friends Alan painted his only mural in a poolhouse in Northamptonshire

Firm, almost massive framing lines, hold more fragile and brightly colored strands. The framing lines cross the edges of the picture; the coloured strands are finite.

Backyards Edinburgh (1960) looks out the back window of Alan Caine's university tenement lodgings.

Shelf with Mirror(1997) is very much an artist's picture. Alan, like many others, gathered objects, which he displayed around his house.