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24/03/2012

Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow

I spent yesterday creeping my way across this teasing out some volume and getting, very slowly it seemed to me, to white. The day before had been all fast and fun and filled with lovely wet paint. I was in … More …

22/03/2012

Veil

Like someone with a flakey grasp of a foreign language I’m going about this painting in a very round about way! but it is creeping towards coherence. It may not end up as the bubble gum tumult that I’d set … More …

18/03/2012

Consequences 23 and 25

Gradually building up a surface. Unclogging the blacks and teasing out the drawing. Good fun although the imagery has become a problem. Too many people have asked whether these have anything to do with 9/11 and the twin towers. No! … More …

12/03/2012

Another Blurry Photo

15/03/12 An update: I thought I’d update this post rather than spawn a new one. The paints getting thicker, licking around the figures in parts, chiseling them in others. I’m enjoying it. The idea is for the surface to churn … More …

26/02/2012

Aspirants

After a week off I got back into the studio and felt slightly nauseous at the sight of the work I’d left off. But better not to dwell on it I thought and so I fired into something new and … More …

20/02/2012

Just Wondering Update

I like painting on Sundays, like being a Sunday painter. In fact it’s only the thought of being a ‘Sunday painter’ that makes me like Sundays so much! Amateurism! God love it! How much better it is than ‘professionalism’ an … More …

16/02/2012