Chasing Tigers

Chasing Tigers

The hero awakens with a strange feeling of otherworldliness caused by a vortex floating through an open window and landing on his head. His mind is firmly stuck inside it, but his body is rooted in this world. The fears that plague him, real and imagined, are momentarily diminished, and in this pause, he is overcome with the burning desire to be free from his prison of conditioned thought. He slowly rises from his bed and begins to walk out into a deserted city. As he is pulled ever deeper into the silent city…

I Like The Word Gesso

It’s great stuff, dries like plaster... Priming canvases when I don’t know what else to do is moving in the right direction. You get to be in the studio looking at unfinished work without having to entertain your critical mind. Linen rocks! It lifts beautifully as you apply the gesso. John Shinnors once told me he always makes his stretchers and stretches his canvases as a necessity. His reasoning was simple: ‘It calms the mind to watch paint dry while you smoke a rollie and have a cup of tea ‘.

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This technophobe got an iPad Pro. I am still waiting for flying cars, but in the meantime I let my mind be blown by mixing “live paints” on this glowing glass thing. To be honest, I found it frustrating to get into it. The concept of layers is central to my painting process, but these digital layers feel so alien. I have spent so much time thinking about “layers” and “masks” recently that they have tweaked how I see paint. These small self-portraits are the first…

Herding Dirty Sheep

Herding Dirty Sheep

Today I decided to take all the bits of canvas that have been with me for years out of their various hiding spots and measure them for stretchers. I have been meaning to do this for ages. I am not exactly careful with canvas fabric. Once it’s off the roll, it is fair game. I use it to wrap stuff when I am on the road or as a painting rag. Even when I don’t actually use it, all those bits of fabric are lying around the studio where they get covered in drips and all sorts of other studio DNA. I like my canvases to be…

The Mindset of an Easy Breeze

The Mindset of an Easy Breeze

This is a stubborn beast of a canvas. I was sure it would be finished for my show in June “Go, Go Pitch-Black Night”. But no, just before the finish line, it took a sharp left into a dark forest where it has been sitting, defiant and undecided. I couldn’t hear it, and I had no…