Reworked FIGURE ON A PEDESTAL, CHILDHOOD LANDSCAPES  and to a lesser extent RECLINING FIGURE.

Finished the first symbolic evocation entitled MYSTERY PAINTING.

Slightly amended (FROM THE BRAIN JUNGLE) THE MEETING OF MINDS.

Finished the second symbolic evocation entitled MYSTERY PAINTING 02.

Touched up the recently completed LANDSCAPE ON REFLECTION.  I am trying to increase the small areas of interest in what is a relatively conventional painting,

Touched up, again, FIGURE ON A PEDESTAL.

Started a more expressionistic painting entitled MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE,  This is one of at least two.  Working from photos and initially using thin paint,  thicker once the Sansodor wash had dried - after a couple of hours.  Using a mix of blue and autumnal colours.

Almost finished the painting in new style entitled MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE.  I am not that happy with it as it is not compositionally unified, probably because I was undecided in how to do the first marking out and initial painting in.  I will have to do another version at some point.  There was a number of stylistic options but I have fell between various stylistic stools.

Put in a wash for the other MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE.

Completely finished MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION TWO and also finished MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  I prefer tha latter but both are rather hurried and there was not a complete committment to following ideas through.  I quite like the colours of INVESTIGATION ONE.  Not that my palette is that important in the context of these works.

Working at art shop/gallery today but I managed to get two canvases stretched and primed.

Working on Sunday because I am in art shop/gallery all of next week.

Did the drawing part of another larger scale landscape entitled REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.  This is based on an earlier (and smaller) landscape.

Re-worked my MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION TWO.  I was not happy with the large areas of brown and orange.  The painting works a bit better now.

Not much time but I did a little painting of REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.

Managed to get an hours painting done.  I am still working on REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.

Recommenced the painting in of REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.  I am not yet sure how much detail/information I will allow these works to contain.  I may have to repaint some of the areas done last week.

I have now almost finished REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.  I am enjoying the colours of these works although they do not have much in the way of content.

Started to prime panels for new series of abstracted progression based land and life scapes.

Little time again for painting but I have finished REFLECTED LANDSCAPE.

I have done the drawing stage of a very small work titled THE SMALL GARDEN.

I am starting two reduced landscapes: one based around a series of blocks and the other condensed to simple interacting linear structures.

Very little time to paint today.  I have continued to work on two new landscapes entitled: LANDSCAPE WITH THE VIEW REMOVED and THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH respectively.  I am trying to move away from the spontaneous gestural style of recent landscapes using image blocks and linear structures - however neither work is as originally conceived so more works will need to be done.

I have reworked MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  This is another series where further works will be needed!

I had a little time to paint today and reinforced the preliminary lines of LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW and THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.

I framed MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  I am hanging the work tomorrow in the MA exhibition.N.

Sunday: I spent some time painting today and finished a small stretched canvas entitled THE SMALL GARDEN.  The canvas was a sample sent by a canvas supplier and I have painted the sides in venetian red instead of framing.

Working on the painting stage of LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW and THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.  I will have to do a new more expressionistic version of the latter as it does not match my original conception.

Finished painting the first stage of LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW and THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.

Did the drawing stage of two new, more condensed, landscapes.  Both are based on Windmill Hill near Tidworth.  The first will be called UP WINDMILL HILL and thew other OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.  They are gestural and spontaneous - in terms of the actual drawing - and symbolise the landscapes of my childhood, although in a less deliberate way than the earlier childhood series.

Completed UP WINDMILL HILL.  I am not too happy with the predominant colours of the work.  Also completed OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.  These paintings are in very bright colours - particularly when compared to the landscape style of earlier in the year.

Worked during the evening getting pictures ready for my forthcoming show at Newbury Corn Exchange.

Spent another evening preparing for my exhibition.

I spent all of today finishing off all the preparations for my exhibition at the Corn Exchange.  Unfortunately, I could not take three of the works I finished last week as the paint had not dried.

Hung an exhibition at the Corn Exchange in Newbury.  I did not take enough work so will have to take more on Wednesday.  Hung 37 pictures with the new meditative landscapes predominant.

I could only work in the morning.  Working again on LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW.  I put in the background sequence of spontaneous symbols.  Loosely based on growth shapes and patterns but also interacting and evolving on an abstract level.

I worked in the morning on LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW again.  In the afternoon I had to hang an additional show in the Newbury Corn Exchange.  I now have 50 paintings on show.

I managed to paint for a little while today.  I am continuing to work on LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW and THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.  I have made radical changes to the basic composition in both these works.

Had to do extra hours in art shop again!  However I still managed to do several hours work.  I am still working on THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.  Although I am using spontaneous symbols this work (and it's pendant) marks a return to more considered paintings.  The symbols overlay simple linear structures in a relatively expressionistic landscape.

Had to do extra hours for the second day in a row.  However I have now completed THE CHALLENGE WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE EARTH.

Unexpectedly, I managed to paint all day.  I have finished LANDSCAPE WITHOUT A VIEW.  I have also started four small landscapes under the generic title of POSTCARDS.  These are small scale variations on "meditative" landscapes completed in 2001.  Unfortunately they are not exactly 6x4 but they are conceived as a series of deliberately small scale realisations.

I spent some time painting today.  I have finished one of the "Postcards": POSTCARD FROM A JAPANESE GARDEN.  I am not sure if I have concentrated terribly well but some of the colour combinations are a little unusual.

Had to do extra hours in art shop yet again!!!  However I more or less finished another "Postcard" called POSTCARD FROM A WILTSHIRE GARDEN.  I am not sure if I concentrated well enough again but some of the colours work OK.

Yet more extra hours in art shop/gallery.  Reworked the first two "Postcards".  I did not have time do do anything else.

Completed two "Postcards": POSTCARD FROM THE GARDEN and POSTCARD FROM THE ARTIST'S WIFE.  Slightly retouched the two earlier works.  I had to stretch the composition of these works and the choice of colours may (or may not) have been a little hurried.

Primed a panel for my Nativity commission.  I have been inputting some of my smaller works into the computer this week using a webcam.

Took down the exhibition at Newbury Corn Exchange.

In the morning I started working on a 24"x30" NATIVITY SCENE for Andover Hospital.

I spent much of today working on the NATIVITY SCENE for Andover Hospital.  I did the drawing roughly in charcoal and then went over this with thinned oil paint.

I had to work in the shop today but managed to pick up the remainder of the works from Newbury Corn Exchange in the evening.

Started painting in the NATIVITY SCENE.  I am applying the paint very freely and as nomal without any diluents etc.

Carried on painting in the NATIVITY SCENE.  This work is compiled from images in other paintings.  It is a little bit hurried as I have a tight deadline.

I worked for a large part of the day on the NATIVITY SCENE.  I painted in the animals and some of the faces today.

Finished the NATIVITY SCENE.  I would liked to have made some changes but it had to be completed in a short time span.

I started a new work entitled ENCAPSULATED LANDSCAPE and comprises of a structural sequence within which I have painted condensed landscapes.  More works in this idiom should follow.

Completed the drawing stage of a commission for a portrait of a horse.  I enlarged the original photograph on a colour copier.  A rough outline was sketched in with charcoal and then defined with thin oil paint.

I continued working on ENCAPSULATED LANDSCAPE.

I also started priming some hardboard panels for a series of new landscape sketches.

I have completed  ENCAPSULATED LANDSCAPE.  This is a small work, experimental in terms of colour, which has not really worked although I will not rework it.

Finished priming some hardboard panels to subsequently paint on.  I prefer MDF but I needed to get a large sheet of hardboard for another use.

I am reworking a tiger painting I originally did some tine ago.  I have added an abstracted and elaborated head.  I did the intitial drawing today and will paint in when this has dried.  Working title: TIGER ONE.

I have started to work again on yet another version (in pencil on acrylic) of TRANSMUTATIONS.

Although Sunday I did some work today.  I completed TIGER ONE.  I also started the main structural drawing of MECHANISTIC LANDSCAPE.  This is basically a structural sequence floated over a horizontal line and containing abstractions of the natural world.

Not a lot of time to work today.  I continued working on MECHANISTIC LANDSCAPE. 

Painting in a horse portrait commission.  I am not happy with the scale of the image so I may do another.

Continuing to work on MECHANISTIC LANDSCAPE. I have painted in the main areas and only have the small structures to complete.

I finished MECHANISTIC LANDSCAPE and also HEAD OF A HORSE.

I did the drawing stage of a totally invented landscape entitled JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.  I roughed in with charcoal and then thinned paint with a round brush.

This is the first day I have been able to work for a little while.  Unfortunately, progress was slow today and it took me all day to do something which would normally take half an hour!

I started the drawing stage of another horse portrait.  I also worked further on the drawing for JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.

I had to fit painting around having a tooth removed!  Did the drawing stage of yet another Horse Head.  I wasn't happy with the scale of the image (again!) so I rubbed it out and did it again. 

I put a background into the other head drawing.  This other work has a more unusual composition.

I also did a little more work on JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.  I placed the picture some way away and refined the basic composition - A practice I rarely follow but perhaps should do (it would, of course, be inappropriate for my more serious sequential works).

I am redoing my very early Wing Works on a smaller scale.  I had previously reworked 4 paintings, although in these I reversed the canvas and repainted the picture to the same scale.  I was not happy with the end result - hence the new regime.

I did the drawing stage today of WING: THE ROCK IDOL

I am continuing with the intitial series of Wing Works.

I did the drawing stage today of WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM.

I have had flu over Christmas and For the first time in years stayed in bed in the morning.  However I managed to get up in the afternoon and did most of the drawing stage of another Wing Work entitled: WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.

Still suffering from the flu.

However, I finished off the drawing stage of WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN and also started 
WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.

I finished the drawing stage of WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.  I also amended the drawing of WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN and WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM.

Rather than commence painting I started the drawing of yet another Wing Work called WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.loped painting habits and it is sometimes difficult combining observed representation with symbolic interpretation.

I still have the flu.

I am still doing the drawing stages of reworked Wing Works.  I finished the initial stage of  WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.  I also completed the first stage of two other works: WING: CHRIST UNDER A MICROSCOPE and WING: WALKING ON WATER.

I also made the preliminary laying out of another work called : WING: PORTRAIT OF GARY, SHEENA & VIKKI.  These first marks were made with a cotton bud dipped in thinned paint.