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.
If you have a telescope. My course ends on July 3rd, but formal Assessment doesn’t happen until mid-September, by which time I’ll have forgotten I was ever on it. I have a choice; pack everything away and reclaim my conservatory, … Continue reading The end is in sight!
AR enabled. I had no words for this painting when I posted it earlier, and it didn’t go to my exhibition on the 6th and 13th of June because of its inherent violence. Now I do have the words, and … Continue reading War Flowers #2
This started out as plants. Became an unspecified seascape. Acquired an air-borne sea mammal. And then a time-lapse skyline. I’ve reached the point here where I have an image but no narrative, and without the narrative, there is no life. … Continue reading Rising weather
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