Here we are on the edge of another season.
I enjoyed the Melbourne festival in September and I think I am ready for the Banks Mill open studios in November.
I have been combining brush and knife work in the last few pictures I have made.
I have really enjoyed the process of underpainting the canvas and letting it dry, covering the whole thing with a top layer of mixed colours, then scraping back through to the original colour to add depth and detail, looking for “the Picture”,
Uncovering it gradually, letting it reveal itself until I reach a place where I think its ambiguity works.

I have been using brushes recently to keep myself moving and learning.
It’s a departure from the knifework but I have been enjoying the different approach.
It started with some quick sketching on paper and then drawing straight on with the paint.
I hope you enjoy them.

Acers.

Yellow poppies.

Stargazers.

Some new work for the coming spring.

The latest batch from the attic

I don’t know where the time goes but thankfully I have a few new pictures to post – hope you enjoy. More in the gallery.

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Two pictures for the start of Spring.

Sharing a similar palette and my usual looseness with theme, it’s all nature it’s all about colour and mood.

and moons and trees, but something just gets me and I can feel my hand instinctively making the shape.maybe it’s the lack of colour that draws me there?

the last month has been too cold to get up in the attic.

So I have been trying out some brush painting with acrylics. I must admit acrylics and brush work is so different from the knife and oil I normally use that I am keen to get back upstairs,but it’s good to try a different medium.

I have been keeping my hand in with  some ink drawing and trying different exercises and techniques. But roll on some better weather and I can just ” get on with it” as an old friend used to say ALL the time………