Sometimes I feel like I’m going round in circles with a painting – applying layer after layer of paint and never getting any closer to finishing. Occasionally under such circumstances I’ll leave a painting indefinitely. This is one such painting, which I started and left sometime last year. I was searching for something, but I…
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Moh-Mariko
It’s been taking me increasingly long to complete paintings, a good example of which is a 20” x 30” painting of some water lilies which took me around 6 months from start to finish between February and August this year. As an antidote to this sloth-like working pace, I set myself a challenge this week…
Four Ducks in Search of Adventure
Over the last four years I have donated work to two ‘Stars on Canvas’ art auctions in aid of the Willow Foundation, a national charity raising money to facilitate special days for seriously ill young adults. More on the foundation can be read here: http://www.willowfoundation.org.uk. Participating artists are asked to complete a work of art…
Drawing Upon Life 