Oil over acrylic on canvas, 2024, 60 x 60 cm
Walking in tangled woodland full of deadfall, bog and fern, wilderness in Fife, this summer, trying to find a loop walk off the Pilgrim Way.
2024
TELL ME YOU’LL COME HOME
Acrylic, cold wax and oil paint on canvas, 2024, 120 x 100 x 4 cm
I was inspired to have another go at painting my garden by Hayley Barker – and Andrew Cranston, Bonnard and Paul Klee (ref Paul Klee for watering cans and trellis) and Matisse – my garden made over four years with cardboard sheet mulching over tired lawn, and prairie flowers grown from seed
READING BY AN IMAGINARY LAKE
oil over acrylic on a beautiful cradled panel I won from the company Artists’ Surfaces, in the collaboration they do on Instagram with Artist Support Pledge. It is 40 x 30 cm and 3 cm deep. I tried to be too careful with it on the first go round, but for this final version I mostly used a palette knife and quite thick oil paint.
It’s the same distant figure reading on a deckchair in the park in Paris. The photo made the wall of the Orangerie grounds look like a lake, so I went with that.
READING BY MOONLIGHT
oil, pigment, acrylic and collage on a box canvas, 2024, 80 x 70 x 3.8 cm. How to listen to your painting and stop at the right moment. Quite a lot of words visible on this one, torn up pages from a poetry pamphlet I’ve just produced as a kind of artist’s book.
a figure I found in an old photo I took in the Jardin des Tuillerie in 2017, hidden away in the trees.
BLOOMING AND FALLING IN THE FOREST
acrylic and oils on collaged canvas, 2024, 100 x 120 x 4 cm
FOOTNOTES IN THE SINGING WOOD
acrylic, pigment, and oil paint on canvas, 2024, 120 x 100 x 4 cm
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ON A FORGOTTEN PATH
acrylic, pigment and oils on a linen covered and collaged canvas, 2024, 120 x 120 x 4 cm
