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Trying To Get a-Head

Trying To Get a-Head

It’s been a while since I have tidied the studio, so today was the day. There is no doubt that the place is much better than when I started, but it’s still a mess all the same. I have always admired artists that have all their paint sorted according to hues. Brown tubes of paint lying next to red, then comes orange, maybe yellow? It all moves along like an ordered colour chart, and you know exactly where to place …

Slow Bloom

Slow Bloom

The garden around the shed I paint in has slowly changed colours and shapes since I began working there back in March. It was bound to influence my work in some way. I feel like I want to paint flowers. Not in a photographic way but so can allow nature into these new paintings. I don’t analyse it, just let it roam wherever it wants…

Freehand Sculptures

Freehand Sculptures

Late on Wednesday night I began drawing shapes with ink. I had an idea of what I wanted to try on a big canvas yesterday I just went for it.

I looked at it this morning and it looks ok -ish.I am never sure how these things will work out. The sculptures on the table are shapes that hopped…