Too many paintings to finish!

Too many paintings to finish!

This is me this evening facing up to these monsters I have created over the last two months. I am meant to have photos to send to the galleries by Monday and I am still starting too many new ones and not facing up to the trickier thing of putting some of them to bed....
nearing deadlines

nearing deadlines

Only about another week before I have to send images to the Scottish Gallery and John Martin Gallery for their Christmas shows. I now have about 18 unfinished images with some very close to being finished. But finishing is always the hardest bit for me.. I keep...

more pictures in progress

Just another late night quickie after a productive evening in the studio. I am having some joy rescuing some of the unfinished pictures from my last days in Hastings. I seem to know what to do with them now. Well it is nearly 2am and I have to teach at 9.30am –...
The Eels and More Painting

The Eels and More Painting

On Wednesday I went to see the Eels with Richard at the Royal Abert Hall. It was my first time on both accounts and while it would have been nice to know a few more tunes by the Eels before I went, it was great to be sitting up in the circle of this vast very famous...
new pictures update

new pictures update

Another relentless week teaching and painting, only interupted by a wonderful walk on Sunday up the Isis and back along the canel. Kind of appropriate consdiering the subject matter of my new pictures. None of the above are finished yet, but it gives a flavour of the...