lifes journey

Fortune favors the brave, a quote, author not really known, another great quote in my head does have an author, Winston Churchill who said, ''The farther back we can see the farther forward we can Look'', as we grow as humans our greatest lessons are from those mistakes that we have already made and learned from and we should remember our past lessons, one such lesson comes from my partner and muse Sheila who brought me a lesson that was to change the course of my life, she was to show me through paint exactly what it was that I was lacking in my 40 plus years of 'trying to paint' This thought comes to me as I sit in the studio at 6 am carrying out major surgery on ''Mrs Energy'', one of the Social Realism series that I am working on, amputated arms, legs and an open chest wound from the base of her neck to her mons pubis, lying on the worktop as if in the middle of an autopsy I proceeded to add extra length to her limbs. Throughout my life I ...

’The Moormen’  This is by far the longest BLOG post I have ever written, it is open ended and will be continually edited as The Moormen series progress for it is my growing explanation for a new work direction over an indefinite period, part explanation, part philosophy part everything else that relates to, The Moormen and women. 'The Moormen'. are a series depicting an imaginary race inspired by real people, 'the colorful characters, the ones who stand out in a crowd, either by their own actions or their inactions, sometimes because of their life-style, sometimes because of their life choices, sometimes, driven by situation, by cause and effect.  Moormen generally live out their days oblivious to the affairs of the outside world, sometimes if only for a moment of freedom from their own concerns, a world where, either of their own uncaring nature or simply too vast and foreign as to be even a part of their thought process, perhaps even, ignorant to the troubles o...

For those who have followed my progress over the many years, they are aware that I have sought to create a sculptural process that enthralls me throughout, from inspiration and design through to materials, structure and now onward to the final stage, that being the part only seen by the viewer as a finished piece. Notwithstanding becoming bored, disinterested or frustrated each stage of forming this personal process has brought 6 years of emotional roller coaster, a plethora of practice, of trial and error, of sometimes (average) success or ultimate and sometimes epic failures, only through a persistence for total job satisfaction have I reached this stage through more changes in direction than I can remember, reaching out to something new and unknown only to abandon and discard, lodged in my memory bank subtle ideas that would be useful in future projects and then to turn the page to the next idea in the plan to research, always as is the saying, ''hoping for the best,...