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well here I am again and it’s more than 18 months since I posted. Here is Bims on the beach at Tentsmuir this week. So things have not changed too much.<\/p>\n

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it’s October 11th and a few trees are already withdrawing the green from their leaves. This beautiful sweet chestnut is in the old orchard path between the leat and the Eden burn in Cupar.<\/p>\n

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in my garden the asters are coming into their own. some of these were bought as culled plants from Cambo gardens during covid, others grown from seed, bought from Chiltern seeds, so I seem to have 3 kinds, here, a more pinky one, and a longer petalled one as well as the huge tall thing that flops every which way with smaller flowers.<\/p>\n

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the yellow rudbeckia seem quite happy and have increased a lot from last year. I bought them as small plants from a pavement-side sale in aid of charity In Cupar.<\/p>\n

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the echinaceas are mostly just seedheads now, though still quite colourful. I am collecting trees to keep small – proto bonsai. the garden has been a big inspiration for my paintings this year, after I made one big painting of it last year. Tell me you’ll come home. it’s 120 x 100 cm.<\/p>\n

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It’s now in the collection of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Sport and Education, on their Holyrood campus, hanging in the main building’s gathering area.<\/p>\n

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here is the latest one, i haven’t got a title for it yet, it’s 100 x 100 cm, lots and lots of layers.<\/p>\n

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some details – the visible far off trees and fields. Cupar is in a valley, so there are vistas between and over rooftops.<\/p>\n

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the kind of textured surface I like on my paintings – similar to on my old ceramics – made by pouring solvent to cut through a wet layer of paint to what is underneath – which has been spread on with a handful of crumpled newspaper.<\/p>\n

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I do love painting these echinaceas<\/p>\n

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the proto-bonsai have become this rather decorative leaf growth from an area of deeply cut paint.<\/p>\n

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here you can see the painting continues around the edge on the sides of the painting.<\/p>\n

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love-in-the-mist represented here.<\/p>\n

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that’s me in the greenhouse with the faithful watering cans<\/p>\n

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and sunflowers along the back fence.<\/p>\n

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back at Lucy and Scott’s, where i stayed a couple of nights last week after a minor procedure in day surgery. B decided I needed to be pinned down. no more arbitrary disappearances.<\/p>\n

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a friend sent me this, he took it in 2006, almost 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

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19 years later – in front of another garden painting this summer.<\/p>\n

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and I’ll end with more photos of Tentsmuir and Bims<\/p>\n

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