So what do we have? Where are we? The first painting in the new series '20 Books = 20 Paintings', a visual response to the crime-novels from around the world that I read incessantly, bringing that part of my life into my...

Scarlet against grey was always intended and is fundamental to the novel. Colour as sensation and symbolic. Intense concentration with the pouring and shaping of a mark that must not be still, that must 'appear' flowing and liquid. Risk: the...

More paint...redrawing... more paint...redrawing...the eye removed, a twist of the head, strength now in the legs,,,now we see the weight and power and menace of the beast. Now more Picasso than Chagall (below)... what do you see?  where are we? ...

Happy with the new painting now. it's been hard to get into the studio with so much going on but of course I've been painting in my head for days, searching to move the painting forwards both as a painting...

Changes made, painting sharper and more vibrant - we're done. A six hour session in the studio - out of the black - liking this painting now, (5) driven by Fisherman's Blues and The Koln Concert. Strangeness: 'place' hanging from...

The demonstration painting from two back-to-back Freedom in Painting workshops 'Looking at Lanyon'  in Faversham, Kent - started in one, completed in the other. This sticky painting survived both the journey home and the scrutiny afterwards. The instruction to the...

Disparate sources providing ideas for the new painting.  Joni  Mitchell's 'Black Crow' from 'Hejira' on the way to the studio- love that album, all-time favourite. The three versions of Dufy's 'Black Cargo'. Richard Diebenkorn's black and orange 'Ocean Park 133'....

Made during last weeks course in Port Isaac.  It's Port Isaac but of course it's Porthleven too...Cool yellows - Lemon, Primrose, Indian Yellow mixes against a just-purple stripe. The conscious/unconscious looping black line, pure and free, securing space. The wedge...

Monday p.m. Observation, idea, information (drawing), action/process, dissatisfaction, analysis, risk, doubt, despair, understanding, surprise, clarity, exhilaration... Monday a.m Sunday p.m On the walk to the studio early morning: from a familiar viewpoint - the unexpected. A triangle/chevron popped out of...

A new Port Isaac painting, perhaps closer to the subject than last years 'Cool Yellow Harbour- (Gang of Yellows)' which I felt was more of a generic harbour. A good painting nonetheless, and exhibited in the 2018 Winter Group show...