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Friday, 18 May 2012 00:00 |
 Washing and dressing
This is post exhibition wallowing in the past!
Before I gather my strength up to move on I look around
This is a multiple take on morning ablutions. Not, I trust in a voyeuristic way, more sensitivity and understanding, at lea [ … ] |
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Monday, 14 May 2012 00:00 |
Woman with a cigarette
What an extraordinary photo! When I saw it some years ago it was taken at once to the studio for my resource folder. The translation into painting is something else - time passes. When the moment comes the work begins without thought, only intuition. Paper, yellow gouache a [ … ] |
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Friday, 11 May 2012 00:00 |
 Nocturnal Dance
A good client of mine bought this gouche study last week. I tend to disregard old pieces like this untill someone stumps up real money for it and then I look again.
I am at the moment looking forward, thinking about the next move, what to paint and how to go about it. But once agai [ … ] |
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:00 |
 Working
The detail above is from a study for 'picking peas', an idea that occupied me for some time during the mid 90s. The idea continued into 2011 when a series then contained a 'working' module and this early material was much in mind.(see also)
More recently at last weeks studio show I sold a [ … ] |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:47 |
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 07:17 |
I well remember my amazement when, years ago, I first lifted the old red velvet covers that protected the drawings and paintings of Samuel Palmer in the filtered light of the old Ashmolem Museum in Oxford. Sure, I knew what I was looking for, I'd seen them in a book but those little jewe [ … ] |
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