Mushroom
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard - SOLD
I have a thing about chipped paint and peeling wallpaper and mushrooms, with their papery texture, speak to me too.
Three pears
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard - SOLD
Things have been going wrong lately, including technological meltdown, but back to normal now. These three pears were left in the fruit bowl so they didn’t stand a chance. The three graces or three stooges…………not sure.
Jonquils
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD
These little things seem to be popping up at the moment. Excuse the quite horrendous photography, the paint was still quite wet. This one was a commission, more to come……dry hopefully.
Poppies and jug
This painting is the second one which has gone off for the next Help for Heroes auction in a place far away. You may have guessed that this week, although back to the drawing board, I have been posting paintings that are long gone.
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD
This is because I have been suffering from a severe case of artist’s block! Whether it’s January or my deep-seated hang-up about not creating what Sadie Valeri calls ”important art”, I’m not sure. However, after years of apologising for myself in what I choose to paint – I am completely happy doing what a lot of people call ”studies”. I just need to get my backside back in gear.
Anyway, I’m getting back into it this week and waiting for paint to dry – quite literally. I have started work on some larger paintings but they will be representational. Quite honestly, what makes me want to paint is catching sight of some light on an object or a shadow cast by another as I pass through the kitchen. In another life I might push the boundaries with blistered neon paint or make a sculpture from rotting animal carcases to represent the struggles of the Burmese people but for this one, it’s onions and apples! Oh dear, did that sound like an apology?………….
Snowdrops
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD
It was such a beautiful morning after the storms this week that kept me in, the dog had a longer-than-usual walk. The colours were very spring-like, grass so green after the mild weather it could almost be March. I thought I would post this painting – a promise of things to come…………very soon I hope.
Pomegranate in bowl
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, still life, SOLD
Not so dark this time. I think I’m all pomegranated out now – on to something else.
Teacups and clementines
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard
I’m trying desperately to push those dark shadows without losing site of the subject. I have recently acquired a ”north light” filter, to fit to my worklamp, from Qiang Huang, a great daily painter and will be trying that out next. Once spring starts filtering through I shall want to lighten things up no doubt. I think this may look a little darker than the painting actually is – but not much.
Bovril and mug
8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD
Happy New Year everyone. Here’s wishing you a wonderful 2012. This painting was a commission for a birthday this week. Happy Birthday Tom (a Wolves supporter!). It was photographed before it had dried, hence the unruly shine.