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?

Me at Harris Museum Exhibition

The curator said he wouldn't take these photos unless I could prove the paintings were mine. I thought of passports or driving licences or utility bills. Instead he looked me sternly in the eye and asked me whether these paintings were mine. I said yes without flinching and he took the photographs.

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Harris Museum pieces submitted today

Yes, it's that time of the year again. Last year I felt my Harris Museum submissions were a little conservative in subject and small in size. The pieces I've this year submitted are large (48 x 36 inches) and more engaging. I want to be able to see my paintings from the other end of the hall so that I can grin broadly and gesture vaguely in that direction when and if asked what I have submitted.  

There will be a big shindig on Friday 12th with wine and cheese. I have six complementary free invites to the private viewing and am likely to still have them on Friday unless my luck changes. I told the nice lady that I had no friends and she did not believe me which is a sort of complement I think.