I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make (attempt) critically engaged painting. If not painting for the sake of...

Holbeck Viaduct (detail) work in progress More work on the old surface using up old materials to depict a Holbeck panorama. #holbeck...

Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...

Hot sunny day, so nothing better than to creep inside and miss the sun in pursuit of painting. One of those phases where I revisit...

My ongoing fascination with the ordinary everyday is now particularly focussing on abnormal normality and issues of collaboration and...

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On the point of scuttling out back to car and decided I had time for a quick oil painting. Placed materials and gilt wax on floor,...

I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...

I’ve been in the studio every spare second this week. When I’ve not been driving the backstreets of south Leeds in search of target...

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Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...

I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...

The tendency after any sort of show for me is to sink into a state of overwhelming lassitude. Psychologically, I’m on a roll, but with no...

I’d hoped to find a way of posting these daily tasters on the fb event page but the system is defeating me. I have to admit some days I...

After a busy couple of weeks spent staring at computer screens producing work for various festivals here, there and just about...

All done. Save mounting and finishing. The great thing about seeing any idea through to completion is the way I want to immediately start...

Tore away the masking tape this afternoon. I quite like it. Bit more to do tomorrow then it’s done. It’s at the abstract stage: the...

Nerve-racking stuff painting through the last few days. Some bits working well. Some not so well. It’s at times like this I feel like...

Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...

Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...