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Garden painting 2009-2012(unfinished)

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A painting I’ve been working on since 2009, one of those that got away. There is a value in continuing in the face of failure perhaps, even if only for the freedom you get when you step aside and do something else. Without this painting, perhaps this one
would not have been done.  It’s very easy to get very frustrated with failures, and to batter something into submission, but the end result is usually horribly prosaic when it’s overworked.  Without wishing to get carried away with myself I find I think of the film ‘A Bigger Splash’ and the production of a painting after, and partly as a result of, the destruction of another. I don’t do the destruction thing myself, I’ve got plan chests full of old work, rolled up canvasses, and an incredible range of opportunities to look back in embarrassment.

New website, work in progress.

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Having been informed that my current website is out of date and not user friendly (whoever wanted a user friendly website?)I am endeavouring to bring a selection of my work together through this blog.

My idea is that I’ll be able to post work as it’s completed with a brief overview of why I made it and occasionally some other thoughts that occur along the way. So it will be random, it will be irregular, and it will contain as much rubbish as it does fairly average stuff.

It won’t be logical, or focused, or worked at in any way. Except for when it is!

For the moment I’ve put links to galleries in the menu bar, when that gets four deep and I’ve a big black stripe across the page I’ll spend time editing the theme and put them somewhere else.

As it progresses I shall add notes to the gallery pages about the work, if I can remember anything about it, some of its very old.