Varnishing Day

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Progress shot For J&C – Wild Camp View
I have finally started work on a long overdue commission piece for my really good friends who live up in Aberdeen. The image was taken on our bike trip around Scotland this year. It was the view from our campsite on our last night when we wild camped not far from Balmoral castle on the river dee. I am excited to make a piece for their beautiful home thathas been the scene of many happy times for me. Here is the piece after the first two days work.

Updated – Maybe finished painting
The Mouse and The Fawn, Oil on canvas, 2009

Seeing Myself On The Opposite Mountain
I have talked often about my interest in those moments in our lives that become somehow bigger or more significant than others. It is an interest that drives my art practice and I have little doubt that I have become an addict to those kind of moments. They come in a myriad of ways. From the glorious sensation of acceleration on my motorbike to a reflective moment in nature or a chance encounter with

Tonights Work – Fleeting glimpse
Untitled (as yet) in progress. Oil on Canvas I feel that the twisted and distorted form is starting to take shape slowly and the surface is building. I hope to get a sense of a fleeting glimpse, a glance down as you jump the stream and what you see is not quite reality. I realise that the position of the viewer is of looking down at this reflection, it is the the viewer looking back at thems

First Print and progress with painting
I made my first tentative steps in the print workshop today. I have a stock of aluminium sheet that I was intending to paint on but the sheets are a bit small for that. drypoint plate   They are the perfect size to make drypoint print plates though, so yesterday I scribed my first experimental with image. Taking the image of the blurred leaf photographs as inspiration, I