Not able to do much work this week.  Still working on "Chequered Sun".

Continuing to work on "Chequered Sun".  Had to redo the entire bottom section.

Not able to do much work this week either.  Still working on "Chequered Sun".  I have had to redo it again.  I am using up my old water soluble oils and I am not comfortable with the selection of paint I have left.

Almost finished "Chequered Sun".  I have repainted a large area of it this time.  I am still not happy with the colour harmonies but I may not change it now.

Managed to get a little more work done today.  Started work on another canvas - untitled landscape at present.  Preliminary lines in pencil and then reinforced with acrylic.

Started painting in my new landscape on linen canvas.  Experimenting with a lighter palette.  I should have put a thin acrylic glaze over lines but forgot.  I will have to redefine the lines in oil now.

Finished new landscape called "Childhood Landscapes".  This is a semi-abstract landscape with a bright palette.

Finished "The Chequered Sun".  I have repainted this work several times and used a more painterly technique.  Also I have used a new mix of colours.

I have done the preparatory drawing stage of two works: "Reclining Figure" and "Figure On A Pedestal".  These works are in a new fluent style and I am reasonably pleased so far - especially with the Reclining Figure.

Painting in "Figure On A Pedestal".  Still using mix of oil and water soluble oil.  Exploring subtle use of symbols in conventional picture.

Continued painting in "Figure On A Pedestal".

Finished "Figure On A Pedestal".  Started painting in "Reclining Figure".  I need to rework my paintings more - be prepared to redo sections if necessary..

Continued painting "Reclining Figure".

Had to hang paintings at Hearn & Scott Gallery

Finished first layer of painting in "Reclining Figure".  The composition of this work is experimental with flowing scribble like lines for the head of the figure and figurative but expressively drawn body.  The colours are not too subtle but hopefully work reasonably well.

Completed "Reclining Figure".  Redid parts of "Chequered Sun" and "Figure On A Pedestal".  With the latter, I was concerned that the amorphous flowers were not prominent enough.  Also, when I sketched them in I was deliberately spontaneous in terms of entangled lines - I am wondering now if I should have been a bit more controlled.  I added fairly spontaneous symbols (based on supposed life forces) to the grid in "Chequered Sun"..

I will not be able to do much work this week.  Did a little work on "Metamorphoses In A Garden".

Managed to do a little work on "Transfiguration In The Garden".

Another two hours of painting this evening and further work on "Transfiguration In The Garden".

Started a series of abbreviated and elaborated landscapes.  I did the initiating drawing about six years ago.  There will be three in the series plus a related painting.  Two will be abbreviations in different styles and one will be an elaboration on one of the former.

Continuing to work on new landscapes.  I used acrylic for the drawing of "Scenic Elaborations" and Artisan water soluble oil for the drawing of "Scenic Abbreviations".

Started the inital drawing in of two serious Meditative works utilising a similar structural format as my earliest works done in the late Seventies/early Eighties.

Working on two Scenic abbreviations and one Scenic Elaboration - Plus an expressionistic landscape.

Completed the drawing section of "Scenic Elaboration" and the two "Scenic Abbreviations".

Working on the painting stage of "Scenic Elaboration".  I have almost completed this today.

I am looking at working on a number of different styles at the same time.  I want to redo some early Wing works,  redo my "Symphonic Concerto - Romeo & Juliet", start a series of Country Boy adventures and start a series of serious paintings/drawings - taken up from where I left off in 1994.  I also hope to do some one offs which I have been thinking about for some time.

I have to prepare work for a solo show at Hearn & Scott.

Working on both versions of "Scenic Abbreviations".  I am exploring different colour schemes and use of spontaneous symbols and other decorative marks.

Completed both versions of "Scenic Abbreviations".  The original drawing on which these works are based was done in the mid Nineties.

Started another in the new garden series "New Garden Two" - did the preliminary drawing stage today. 

Also did the preliminary drawing of a painting entitled "Woman & Child".  This returns to a compositional preoccupation of the end of my first "Wing" period (1975-76) and combines decorative elements with egg shape motifs.  I am planning a large series of Wingworks in a number of distinct styles as well as redoing original paintings over the next 6-12 months.

Redid part of "New Garden One" - removing the tub like enclosures in the foreground and repainting some of the vegetation.

Did two small paintings entitled "Landscape Abbreiviation 1 & 2".  these were based on a page of quick sketches and the concept will be explored further at some point.

I also did the drawing stage of a painting entitled "Linear Aphorisms".  This was based on a drawing done in 1995.

Also today I completed a fragment of a large scale collage done originally in 1975.  The work was cut up and used as backing.  I added new painted elements to the rescued piece and called it "Early Recognition Of Circe Syndrome".  The original collage was 48"x24" and the fragment is 11"x14"!

Finished "Linear Aphorisms".  Did the drawing stage of three small works entitled "Webern Realisations 1, 2 & 3".  Started painting number 1 of these.

Repainted part of "Scenic Abbreviation 2".  I lightened the venetian red at the front to balance/harmonise the composition.

I did not have much time to paint today.  I completed "Webern Realisation One - Short Stories".

Hung a 35 work exhibition at Hearn & Scott Gallery.

I did not have any time to paint.

Finished "Small Talk - Webern Realisation Two" and "Small Change - Webern Realisation Three".  The first in primaries and the second in mainly secondaries.

Started painting in "New Garden Two".

Did most of the painting in on "New Garden Two".  I am wondering if my precise forms look naive to people coming across them for the first time.  I am going to heavily diversify anyway - both myself and my alter-ego Wing.

Finished "New Garden Two" and did most of the painting in of "Madonna & Child".  The latter I am quite pleased with - both stylistically and in terms of the colours used.  In many ways it is another new departure,

I did not have time to work today but managed to put finishing touches to "Madonna & Child".

I have had very little time to work today.

I have started the preliminary laying out of two Odyssey type works with circuitous routes and events.

Also doing preminary work for two spontaneous expressionistic landscapes called "Mysterious Landscapes".

I am planning some expressionistic pseudo-abstracts as sketches for a projected series of large canvases.

Started a series of quick expressionistic pseudo-landscapes representing aspects and events of my childhood.  Did the preliminary drawing of 3 works today using thin acrylic paint.

Preparing hardboard and MDF panels to paint on using Liquitex acrylic gesso,

I have done the preliminary drawing (again in acrylic) of a fourth symbolic landscape and started painting in the others.  In one I washed in a layer of solvent diluted paint, another I used heavily diluted water soluble paint and the other two I used thinned acrylic.

Finished symbolic landscape entitled THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: WALKING TO WEXCOMBE.

I have almost completed another entitled: THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: GOING UP TINKERBARN HILL.

I started painting in two others.

I managed to finsh THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: GOING UP TINKERBARN HILL before leaving for work.

I finished another pesudo-abstract landscape derived painting entitled: POND OR MAKE UP YOUR OWN TITLE.

I wont have much time to paint this week as I am doing extra hours in Shop/Gallery.

Started painting in another symbolic landscape called:  THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: IN THE BRUNTON GARDEN. I am experimenting with colour a lot more again.

I have managed to do a few hours work and I have almost finished THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: IN THE BRUNTON GARDEN.

I planning to copy some of the small Meditative Landscapes I have completed during the last eighteen months on a much larger scale.

Still not able to do much work.  Finished  THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: IN THE BRUNTON GARDEN.

Started the preliminary drawing of two new symbolic paintings.

Completed the drawing stage of the two symbolic paintings using oil paint thinned with Sansodor.

Did the drawing stage of a scaled up Meditative Landscape using water thinned acrylic.  I rushed it at the end and I am a little disappointed with it.

Completed most of the painting of the enlarged version of Meditative Landscape.  I rushed it a little so I am still annoyed.  I used a very similar palette to the original version and the brushmarks are fairly free.

Finished the large scale Meditative Landscape entitled: LANDSCAPE ON REFLECTION.

Repainted part of THE ARTIST'S CHILDHOOD: IN THE BRUNTON GARDEN as I was unhappy with the general layout of the painting.

I also repainted part of RECLINING FIGURE as I was unhappy with the colour of the dress which did not harmonise with the rest of painting.

I am trying to make myself use larger brushes for the more expansive parts of the paintings.

I managed to have a few hours painting today.  I started painting in one of the new symbolic evocations.

Visited the Modern Artists Gallery today.  The director (Peggy Gibson) liked my work and has offered to show some paintings.  She also gave me a lot of advice re promoting my paintings.

Took down most of Hearn & Scott Exhibition.  A very successful show!

Painted in the rest of the background of one symbolic evocation and painted in most of another.

Finished taking down the Hearn & Scott exhibition.