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3 March 2019 Week Five After completing some A3 sketches on paper and a few hundred smaller ones, the next logical step, for which I was chomping at the bit, was to move to small canvases. I chose canvas for a few reasons. Canvas was my end goal but really the main reason was that,Continue reading “On to Canvas”

24 February 2019 Week Four This week continues along a similar line of thought. Automatic and gestural, accidental and beautiful. I prepared 140 pieces of paper ranging in size from a stamp or thumbnail to A4, each time doubling every ten or twenty pieces. I started with the smallest size. I have never before paintedContinue reading “Scaling Up – Scaling Down”

17 February 2019 Week Three Following on from last week’s composing smaller paintings to build larger images, I attempted to paint bigger paintings inspired by these groupings. I didn’t make many before I lost heart. It wasn’t in the spirit of the particular painting process, it was too illustrative. I instead used these to influenceContinue reading “Exploring Process”

10 February 2019 Week Two This week started off with being introduced to screen printing. One method involving water soluble crayons. Later in the day I played around with grouping last week’s images together and experimented with unexpected compositions. My mind set has been to explore freely but thoroughly. I hadn’t till this point properlyContinue reading “Composing”

3 February 2019 Week one My first week sprouted no less than one hundred oil paint sketches. It was a number which I never expected to produce so readily. I was working in the zone and found it easy to enter. Working prolifically has usually suited me well. My early work was prolific in nature evenContinue reading “Into the Unknown”

My girlfriend’s and my interest in, and study of, landscape painter William Turner, along with the fact Dot hadn’t visited any of the art galleries in London before, meant it was an absolute must for us to go and absorb as much as possible. We visited the Tate Britain, Tate Modern, National Gallery, and theContinue reading “London Galleries Visit”