This is bright yellow acrylic neon splashed over an acrylic primer and allowed to drift. Things moved fast. I was aiming for an impressionistic style and again used my fingers to make most of the marks, leaving the lines to … Continue reading Beeding Bridge 23/03/2026
I’m currently on a kind of sabbatical, officially a deferment, but the word brings me out in a rash of Gilbert and Sullivan for some reason, so I steer round it. This runs from January 1st to March 31st,* and none of the work I do in this period can be submitted for assessment because, having argued for a break, it would be unfair to allow me to use anything I produce in this time as coursework since no one else is getting those extra three months. This doesn’t mean stopping, though, and how easy would that be in any … Continue reading Collecting a Collection #1
Begun 28th June, reporting 5th July 2025. This is Lancing seafront where a promenade emerges from behind some flats at one end and disappears into the far distance at the other. The beach is all pebbles and shingle except on … Continue reading Weather Systems
Titled after Joshua Idehan’s track available here. There have been so many disruptions in recent days, I managed to make a painting without posting a single image along the way. This is a retrospective post. I’ve very rarely, if ever, … Continue reading Patio #3 or ‘Your Mum Does the Washing’
10th April 2023. Drawing on Cixin Liu’s reference to van Gogh, string theory, and the reduction of the solar system to two dimensions (Death’s End: Three Body Problem series audio book 2018), this is (hopefully) going to be an exploration of Van Gogh’s approach to a cosmology he could never have seen and, for the latter part, doesn’t actually exist. It’s also in oils which I found in the bottom drawer of a stack. Bit of a first for me. Liu devotes an entire chapter to the dispassionate description of the process of becoming two dimensional. With no drama at … Continue reading Temporary home for coursework
Strayfish Arts 