Insubstantial leanings surrounded by thoughts/ New Title LOOKING BACK

This painting has had many lives and the content, whilst always focussing on the girl at the centre of the work, has metamorphosed considerably. It's a large painting, maybe the largest I've worked on but still clings to the notion of figure in space/place. 

Blue Shadow

Experimenting with new materials can often offer new ways of working.

The young painter Nick Lord who won the commission to paint Hilary Mantel uses thin acrylic glazes to build up a portrait, they're very beautiful. This is just me playing at using acrylic glazes and I realized how atmospheric they can be. Will definitely use again.

Yellow field with house

A very textured simplistic painting. I've used the almost child-like depiction of the house in a much bigger painting, metaphorically suggestion our childlike idea of home as a special place.

Pink sky behind lighthouse

Living in London offers a very urban experience a lot of the time so I wanted to paint an abstracted version of the sea and a lighthouse to remind me of the amazing north eastern coastline around Whitley Bay, a view I realize I took for granted. This is a large painting.

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