I was working on a cloud painting, it was going to be all about the cloud. A bit of horizon, maybe some water to reflect the cloud. Then this happened. A swan made its way into the painting. This was very odd as I haven’t painted an animal using oils for years. Pet portraits in […]
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I wrote a science fiction novel, and it’s an absolute riot! It’s true, I wrote a book. It’s a seat of your pants roller-coasting ride through an alien invasion, and it’s an absolute riot. If you like a great story that’s well told, a page turner that drags you kicking an screaming through to the
I have been attempting to find an honest route to abstracting landscapes and seascapes, without losing their identity, in as much as all painting is an abstraction, as is all experience. For me, the difference in what I am attempting now is to deliberately seek a way towards achieving a greater level of abstraction in my paintings, rather than attempting something akin to realism.
There once was a little dog who thought he was a bear… I had a very good friend who was also a dog. We got along very well, I tried to be the owner he thought I was, and he more or less did what he wanted. Clive would leave a room when I entered,
This is a bit of a trip down memory lane, a survey, if you will. First off is a groovy old painting. I painted this about fifteen years ago and sent it off into the world. It’s a precognitive oil painting from my imagination, precognitive because at the time I was living in Wiltshire and
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