Missed a few months!

If anyone follows this blog regularly ( and I hope there a few ), you will have noticed that there has been an absence of text during April & May. My apologies, but several things have kept me from this task and I am glad to re-appear again for June to continue...

New ideas evolving

February has been a good month for work.   The photos, sketches and ideas I gathered whilst in Suffolk last month, were an ideal subject to concentrate and develop a new painting method. My images were often multiple views of the same view showing different...

A fresh start to 2015

The family visit to Southwold in January was a time to reflect and gather some inspiration for forthcoming work and to focus on some changes I want to make to my paintings. I feel that I need to concentrate more on the work of ‘picture making’ instead of letting the...

Closing the year 2014

The last gallery show of the year was at the Espacio Gallery during the first week of December and proved to be an interesting move away from the standard gallery format of precisely hung paintings. The objective was to display paintings together with the working...

A rewarding – October

A rather late entry on the blog this month as October was hectic to say the least! Although our ‘Points of View’ exhibition at the Espacio Gallery wasn’t until the third week of the month, it was a lot of preparation and framing to get the work ready...

St Ives inspiration & further thoughts about painting

September seemed to be dominated by preparations for the ‘Points of View’ show later in October, and although there was the promise of a holiday break in St Ives during the second week, it was a matter of starting to do a lot of the tasks needed to bring the show in...