lifes journey

This New series of work is just pure joy and fun to create, that is not to say that it has not arrived without the basic or some specific requirements such as elements of composition and pallet, of alchemy, chemistry, mystery and even a hint of the magical in relation to how the colours bend and gel together, where differences exist in relation to my thinning and thickening of paints one colour will push another aside or simply 'mix in', as well as the practical  mixing of paint and thinner, there is also my relationship with the canvas, the paints, the space, birds feeding at my window and soft rain dampening down the sounds beyond, contrary to the energies within the work, my personal and work-space is borne of a sense of separation from the world in a place of Peace and creative saturation.  It is quite a prolific period for me, much painting time has been sacrificed for the Castle Project that needed a period of priority, now, with a bigger window and much achieved the ...

It has been a great 3 months progress since my last post, The Mural is on stand-by at the moment, in a turn of good fortune and with only a couple of weeks to go before the expiry of a planning approval for a doorway to be cut out and fitted for the premises next door The Joshua Tree Restaurant received a notice approving the works, It would have been otherwise awful to have installed the Grand Design only to have a part of it ripped out, so, for now I have gained extra time to commit to other projects. Aside general pottering about, bits of experimentation and a few trials of life I have two projects on the go, the First, and my primary concern, is the Kendal Castle Poppy Installation for which there is a separate Blog and its own Facebook site now in active and regular use. I started a 3 week proactive marketing strategy which was in the form of targeting selectively individuals and groups and requesting their support through friendship, since that time I have allowed the sit...