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...

No time in the studio now until Thursday. It’s one of those weeks when I really wish the rest of the world didn’t exist. I don’t mean...

Painting figures in ridiculous poses from imagination is sometimes very very hard and very very frustrating. I need a ten year...

I’m becoming a bit more relaxed each day posting the normally hidden pages of my sketchbook and related messings. Working in a open plan...

A reflective weekend. In pursuit of Slowness. 24 hours away from all online activity, allowing focussed concentrated reading and note...

The best type of glorious failure today. I have been playing around with surfaces for making shadow puppets, and had read that Ivory...

I am fearful of cliche in art even though it amuses me in writing. So today peering at a coral reef through the windows of an underwater...