Enjoying this one

Yes, I'm really pleased with this one and I haven't even reached for a brush. Note the coffee on the floor. I now have an expresso machine and grind my own beans. All I require now is an Edwardian Cricketer's beard and I can go Hipster. Not sure Preston is ready.

Feverishly getting ready for the coming festivities - not!

I have my own way of dealing with Xmas which involves ignoring it like I would the outbursts of a drunk on the tube. Feeling very good and positive now which normally sets alarm bells ringing. I've started a nice big canvas based on the design below which is to be called 'Portrait of the Artist'. It's me painting the previous painting in my Preston flat! How much fun is that???!

Portrait of the Artist

The other exciting thing is the sudden creation of a sister website: www.egomachine.co.uk which is designed to explore the existential implications of the Ego Machine symbolic metaphor. What does it feel like to reduce all man's activities to the aimless contortions of a simple mechanism. Yay!!

And a Merry Xmas to everyone!

Interesting life right now

I'm working on the canvas below. Another ego machine. Am I obsessed? No - well yeah a bit. I need a significant content for a body of work called 'The Natural History of Consciousness'. It's going to be a narrative based on the growth and development of the Ego. A philosophical and metaphysical work which will make explicit the use of the Ego Machine as a symbolic metaphor for the human condition. Much the same content will form a wiki entry. There might also be a t-shirt design and possibly a badge but I haven't decided yet. 

The first in ages. I'm back!

Yeah, so I haven't painted in a while for a variety of reasons. Much has happened since the last post but I don't feell much like going into it. This painting is based on a Picasso called Two Women Running on a Beach. It expressses joy and abandonment using the Ego Machine symbolic metaphor. Not appropriate right now as I have just spent the best part of two hours struggling with software. A contemporary Dante's Inferno circle of Hell would contain sotware designers who change things for no particular reason. Something with spikes comes to mind.

Feeling good etc

Sitting in a new coffee haunt sketching out a couple of new paintings. Feeling pretty good considering I've just recently trashed another relationship. Alone again.  I'm going to start two canvases based on  two of Picasso's works from his monumental period. The first is based on two women running on a beach. The two pieces are to illustrate joy and desolation in the ego machine framework.

Steam punk despair

I started painting this when I felt pretty bleak. But then I perked up and started whistling and could no longer recapture the mood of bleak despair that prompted the creation of the painting in the first place. I soldiered on feeling a little fake. I need to be consistently miserable to undertake this sort of work again.

Summer Exhibition at Oxhey Mill Studios

An awesome exhibition of art at the Oxhey Mill Studios (Stanhope Street - Preston) including a couple of pieces by me. My thanks to Denise Swanson (pictured) and Evelyn Rose (unfortunately not pictured) for placing my paintings in such a great position.
http://oxheysmillstudios.com/
The exhibition runs until September.

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Art at the manor

An art auction held for the Isobella fund. Lots of art from local artists including a piece from your truly. Pims and scones in an English country manor. What could be nicer?