Sometimes a painting is done in minutes, other times it practically moves in, takes your comfortable chair and puts its feet up on the cat. WildFires was one of the latter and this is so much one of the first … Continue reading After the flood and after the burn
Charcoal sketch of the new bridge and the surrounding landscape. Canvas is 40×50 cm. This moved very quickly, grimly in keeping with the nature of wildfires. The bridge here is barely visible and I was still debating with myself whether … Continue reading Wildfires
With alarming warnings about wild fires, and government alerts to our phones, I’m safeguarding a draft copy my last piece of written work by posting it here. Everything else that I might submit to assessment is already online and so … Continue reading Summary end of course/unit
25th July 2026. Traced outline of George (who isn’t missing an ear) in watercolour pencil, wetted and applied to a canvas. Added more water as the temperature in the studio was much higher than it had been for the Tallulah … Continue reading George; also Borborygmus
08/08/2026. How it began. This is a 20x20cm square canvas. Barely big enough to hold a decent-sized sandwich, but which I’m forcing myself to use because learning curve. I’m maintaining the non-cute cat theme, but I need always to start … Continue reading Cats eyes
This painting is the kid whose uniform never fitted, who never had the right books in their bag and lost their dinner money on the way to school. It’s worn multiple overcoats, had some reconditioned, ripped a few and lost … Continue reading Ghost Lights
23rd July 2026. Continuing the cat theme. At the top is my own photo of our household’s matriarch and Empress of all she surveys, and beneath it a tracing in black watercolour pencil, wetted, then applied to the canvas, finally … Continue reading Tallulah
If atoms can be in two places at once anywhere in the universe, you can bet they got that trick from cats. Drawing from the outline of a tracing of a photo, repeated across the canvas. I had no clear … Continue reading Quantum Cats 17th July 2026
Not quite done. I’ve realised I want to tidy up a strip of light blue on the right, given it’s acquired the status of galaxy. In fact it turned out that a much bigger and wholly, significantly, impactful change was … Continue reading Brighton Station then or now, or in between [final painting titled Marshmallow Skies]
This idea would be familiar to any working-class populations in the post-war North of England, where industry was just getting back on its feet. The white canvas becoming a burning book, factory chimneys, bleak housing, and what at this point … Continue reading Smoke, smog, and yellow air.
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