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on losing focus and seeing things

I have been playing with a few landscape digital photographs, having not pursued much in the way of any painting or drawing this week… A few filters applied here and there, playing with digital effects...

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more grey sky thinking, out of the blue

more cloud gazing this week, torrential rain all day on tuesday (a typically british summer’s day) – this was the view from the window at about 6pm… a room with a view i hadn’t really noticed how...

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on nothing, to be done

[a country road, a tree, evening...] it was meant to be, it wasn’t meant to be, it will happen, it might never happen my life seems to have become quite beckettian of late… i can’t claim to know much...

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another painting, incidentally

in nine equal parts, shown in a random order (some surface incidents) – it takes a perfectionist to appreciate the small imperfections… these nine ‘parts’ together comprise one of my series of small...

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when art is a waste of time

when art is a waste of time… … … unwanted: abandoned paintings slowly decaying at the end of the garden… it’s what they would have wanted … abandonment, failure, reject, dismiss, neglect, waste, wreck,...

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on decay, in blue, brown and grey

a blue, brown and grey ‘lost and found’ decay painting (detail) … a coppery brown ‘lost and found’ decay painting (detail) … brown and grey paintings are quite difficult to sell apparently – probably...

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see, the sea…

see, the sea… acrylic painting on watercolour paper, postcard size 10.5cm x 14.7cm

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coming home

They take away our belts so that we must hold Our trousers up. The truly mad don’t bother And thus are oddly hobbled. Also our laces So that our shoes do flop about our feet. so begins Anthony Hecht’s...

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Beware of banality

I keep noticing the most ordinary things – trees strewn with the grey tattered remains of plastic bags, stumps of long dead trees by the roadside, the traces of tyre tracks drawn out along muddy,...

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a philosophy of decay

A new year has unfolded, and freed from the ugly consumerism of Christmas, I have been contemplating more on my fractured philosophy of art and life, trying to resolve an anxiety with the direction my...

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on misty days

land in slumber, trees sleep, waiting for the wind to awaken the day.. camera, 2pm, two shots and then two batteries failed; something to do with the weather..

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days of rain

the creation of an abstract painting, edgescape : meld/rain 2008… [stretched canvas, with beginnings of surface texture] [semi-transparent washes, scrubbed in and dripped, dark blue grey..] [lilac and...

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