After a year spent moving house, renovating the new place and establishing a working space, I’ve now begun to make work again.<\/p>\n

This is the new studio:<\/p>\n

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Although it is early days yet, there seem to be two main strands to the new work:<\/p>\n

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• a series provisionally titled Marking Time (continuing from an earlier series with the same title) – each work (mixed-media: graphite, cont\u00e9, watercolour, acrylic, ink, etc.) beginning with short strokes organised in horizontal bands, with a gradual build-up of forms, signs, words and gestures, like improvised music – a mindful and meditative compositional process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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  Marking Time 1<\/strong> 2013-Mar 2014 Mixed media on canvas 595 x 595mm (in Private Collection)<\/p>\n

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  Marking Time 2 <\/span>Jan 2013-Mar 2014 <\/span>Mixed-media on paper 655-x-560 mm<\/span><\/p>\n

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  Marking Time 4<\/strong> June 2014 Mixed media on canvas 910 x 610mm<\/p>\n

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  Marking Time 5<\/strong> Cezanne’s Hat & Letters Aug 2014 Mix-media on canvas 910 x 610mm<\/p>\n

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  Marking Time 5<\/strong> – detail<\/p>\n

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  Moonviewing study<\/strong> – late Sept 2014 Acrylic & ink on paper 9.5×8 ins<\/p>\n

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  Moonviewing III<\/strong> – Nov 2014 Acrylic & ink on canvas 30×20 ins<\/p>\n

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  Study –<\/strong> Oct 2014 Acrylic & ink on watercolour paper 13.5×10<\/p>\n

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  • and another series, with no title as yet – working in oils – with references to archaeology, prehistory, fossil forms and observed natural forms, organised in a map-like way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Of stones and small things<\/strong> – begun Feb 2014 Oil on canvas 600 x 1380mm – in progress<\/p>\n

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    Of stones and small things<\/strong> – detail<\/p>\n

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    by early July 2014 it has progressed to this and a detail below from late July<\/p>\n

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    Unexpectedly, over the winter months and into the spring, I started to work on some studies of small objects in the studio:<\/p>\n

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    Oranges & Squash<\/strong> Spring 2015 16×20″ Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

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    Oranges & Cup<\/strong> Spring 2015 30×24 Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

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    Oranges & Cup<\/strong> Spring 2015 detail<\/p>\n

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    Stone studies<\/strong> Spring 2015 24×30 Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

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    Stone studies<\/strong> Spring 2015 detail<\/p>\n

    Autumn – Winter 2015\/2016<\/strong> Another shift of method and direction – back towards landscape but employing watercolour and drawing with graphite – developing a sense of being in the landscape, walking, changing perspectives, feeling the layered history of a place:<\/p>\n

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    Fossil Landscape Study<\/strong> Oct 2015 – Jan 2016 20.5×14.5 ins watercolour, graphite & acrylic on paper<\/p>\n

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    Fossil Landscape Study<\/strong> – detail<\/p>\n

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    Picos Mountains, Spain<\/strong> Nov 2015 – Jan 2016 33×22 ins watercolour, graphite & acrylic on paper [text reads: Where vultures soar, goats skip and humans weave stories & songs – so many memories & dreams<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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    Picos Mountains, Spain<\/strong> – detail<\/p>\n

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    Clifftop Walk<\/strong> Dec 2015 – Jan 2016 33 x 22.5 ins Mixed media [Texts reads: In passing – residues of things lost & forgotten<\/em>] (in Private Collection)<\/p>\n

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    Clifftop Walk<\/strong> – detail left<\/p>\n

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    Clifftop Walk<\/strong> – detail right<\/p>\n

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    Stones,wings & signs<\/strong> July-Nov 2015 33×21 watercolour & graphite<\/p>\n

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    Marking Time 8 Two Pages for Basho<\/strong> June 2015 – June 2016 97 x 66 cms Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    Elegy for Old Boots<\/strong> Mar-May 2016 58 x 81 cms Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    How the Boulder Stands<\/strong> Aug-Sept 2016  22 x 16 ins Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    Organic forms, egg & Dao<\/strong> Aug-Sept 2016 26 x 18 ins Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    Stones, fern, Dao & flow<\/strong> Aug-Sept 2016  32 x 22 ins Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    Leaves, fossil bird & Dao<\/strong>  Nov 2016 30 x 20 ins Mixed media on canvas<\/p>\n

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    Cottonwood Creek Elegy<\/strong> Nov-Dec 2016  32 x 23 ins Mixed media on paper<\/p>\n

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    Cottonwood Creek Elegy<\/strong> – detail left<\/p>\n

    – detail right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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