I managed to get a couple of hours painting done today (in between socialising!) and I completed the drawing stage of  WING: PORTRAIT OF GARY, SHEENA & VIKKI.

I did a few hours painting today.  I have begun painting in JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.

I have continued with the painting in of JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.  I am not really that happy with the end result - however something may still come of the painting.  I concentrated on trying some new colour combinations - in the context of this type of landscape anyway.  Looking at the painting now I possibly I did not concentrate enough!

I paint with the radio on, although I try to turn it off when concentrating (for example when attempting something new or not obvious) or, of course,  when doing the intitial drawing etc.  If I don't concentrate then the colour scheme, application of paint etc. can be rather stale and prosaic.

I am still working on JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET - mainly redefining the lines etc.

I also worked today on the two Horse Heads.  I painted in most of one and just the head of another.  Both will need some refining - wet on wet and wet on dry.

I have, more or less, finished HEAD OF HORSE 2 & HORSE OF HEAD 3.  I have also finished  JAPANESE GARDEN ON ANOTHER PLANET.  I have managed to integrate the colours and composition to a large extent of this the latter work.

I started painting in WING: THE ROCK IDOL.  This painting is a reworking of a picture originally done in 1976.  I am only very loosely keeping to the colour scheme of, the now destroyed, original picture.  I also made substantial changes to the content of the painting although the basic composition remains very similar.  This is the first of an initial series of eight works.

I may not have any free weekdays to paint for up to eight weeks so I am trying to paint when I can.  I managed a couple hours this evening after my part time job.  I continued painting in WING: THE ROCK IDOL.

I managed another couple of hours this evening.  I am still working on WING: THE ROCK IDOL.

Continuing with the emergency regime.  I did two hours this evening and I am carrying on with the painting in of WING: WALKING ON WATER.  Like the original work it is based on, this work contrasts blues and greys with smaller areas of orange and red.

Did another two hours today - still working on WING: WALKING ON WATER.

Another two hours spent on WING: WALKING ON WATER.  I am reasonably pleased with the result despite the fact that I am working intemittently and only in the evenings after work.

I have finished WING: WALKING ON WATER this evening.  As I can only work evenings at the moment I have done the entire painting under artificial light and haven't even seen it under natural light yet!

Did a little more painting this evening.  Started painting in WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.  I am not emulating the colour scheme of the painting which this is based on - this contrasted joined up areas of white with a mix of yellows/oranges and dark blues/mauves.

Another week of working only in the evening.  I have continued painting in WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN, although the colour scheme is radically different from the work this is based on.

I am still working on WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.  I did an hour or two of painting.  After dinner I did a little drawing.

I had to catch up on some paper work tonight so only managed an hour of painting.  Again I am concentrating on WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.

An evening of painting and paper work and not achieving much in either.  Still working on WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.

Another two hours of painting this evening and further work on WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.

I did a bit of painting this afternoon to try and catch up.  I have now completed WING: JUDAS IN THE GARDEN.  I altered some of the previously painted sections which I hope has brought the painting together more.  In terms of colour it does not bear much relationship with the original work.

Almost a whole day's painting!  I have started to paint in WING: PORTRAIT OF GARY, SHEENA & VIKKI.  I am, more or less, inventing the colours - although I do refer to the original work which I first did in 1976.

Finished WING: PORTRAIT OF GARY, SHEENA & VIKKI.  I am not sure if I have got the value of the perimeter correct - it possibly should have been lighter.

I started painting in WING: CHRIST UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  I have painted in a very light yellow perimeter which may be a mistake.  I will probably do another version with all dark surroundings.

Also painted in the perimeter of WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE, WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM and WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.

I have finished WING: CHRIST UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  I am not happy with the colour scheme.  I amended it several times but the best plan, as previously considered, is to redo the work - possibly two versions, one of which will be purportedly a portrait.

Started painting in WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.  The colour scheme is ""logically consistent"" with the original version.

Little time for painting this evening. I am working on WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.  The colours are fairly spontaneous but based on the original concept.

Little time for painting again.  I am still working on WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.

I finished a sketch book of coloured pencil drawings.  All of which explore abstract interaction or communication between anonymous figures.

Painted most of the day.  I finished WING: EVOCATIVE LANDSCAPE.  Like all the others in this series this painting was based on an early work completed in 1976.  I now plan to do additional landscapes based on this work.

I have started painting in WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM.  The original work was almost competely painted in various browns. This variant has a broader spectrum of colours.

Cut some panels for a further four Wing Works.  These will be new works based on the previous series.

Painted a large part of the day.  More or less finished WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM.

Did the drawing stage of two very small landscapes on acrylic primed mountboard. I used pencil which I will cover with a layer of slightly tinted acrylic matt medium.  The works are entitled VISTA ONE & VISTA TWO.

Put the finishing touches to WING: CHRIST ENTERING JERUSALEM.

Started the painting in stage of WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.  Like most of the other works in this series there is only a tenuous link, in terms of colour, with the painting this is based on.  I am taking the opportunity, with this series of works, to start experimenting with colour again after the obvious restraints of the meditative landscapes.

Just about finished WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.  I am not totally happy with the imagery (partly derived from an earlier work) as by a combination of accident and design some areas are in 3D and some are flat.  There is no logic to this - although Wing is supposed to be spontaneous and illogical!

Put the finishing touches to WING: PROVISIONAL PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN.

Did the drawing stage of two ""Under A Microscope"" paintings -  Named: WING: GOD UNDER A MICROSCOPE and WING: EPIC UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  Started painting in the former.

I think I have finished WING: EPIC UNDER A MICROSCOPE and also did a large part of WING: GOD UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  The latter has the better colour scheme.  There may well be a fourth variant entitled WING:PORTRAIT UNDER A MICROSCOPE!  This last named painting, I hope, will resolve all the questions over appropriate colours.

Finished WING: GOD UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  I did the drawing in and much of the painting of a new work called WING:PORTRAIT UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  I have not yet decided how to ornament the blocks encircling the main area - I am looking for something concise and unfamiliar.

Finished WING:PORTRAIT UNDER A MICROSCOPE.  I also touched up two of the other three "Under A Microscope" paintings.  I substantially changed the first one and made additions to the colour blocks round the circle of the second.  I am happier with all four now.

I did the drawing stage of a blatantly, and conventionally, surrealist work entitled: WING: LANDSCAPE EVOCATION.  The great advantage of cultivating my Wing alter-ego is I feel more comfortable in exploring art styles I would not normally consider appropriate.

Not so much time to paint again, but started painting in  WING: LANDSCAPE EVOCATION.  This is a blatantly surreal composition but the colours are largely naturalistic.

Still not as much time to paint as usual.  However I managed to finish WING: LANDSCAPE EVOCATION.

A full day to work!!  However things moved quite slowly.  I prepared some small panels for further Wing works.  I have also worked again on a new "Transformations" drawing.  This is a sequential work with a repeated and developing figurative theme from which issue figurative variations.  There is a degree of spontaneity but all images relate to each other in an objective way.

I could only work in the morning today.  Continued with the new "Transformations" drawing.  This is based on TRANSMUTATIONS OF THE ELEMENTS which was originally done in 1984 but is looser in concept and to a lesser degree execution.

I was able to work all day today.  I did the drawing stage of another "Landscape Evocation" and then decided to heavily alter the earlier version.  This will now need substantial repainting.  I am hoping to put both versions in my next exhibition.

I started to prepare other work for my next show in Andover Library from next Monday.

A full day to paint which was spent altering works which I intend to exhibit next week.  I have made major alterations to WING: LANDSCAPE EVOCATION -  totally changing the foreground by adding or deleting images and repainting the ground which I had divided up into more distinct areas.  In my more serious work I tend to leave a work once it is completed but with this style I do tend to tinker a bit.

I also repainted the scenery of one of the HEAD OF HORSE paintings although I decided not touch up the horse itself.  I slightly altered the foreground of UP WINDMILL HILL and I have started to radically repaint MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  However, this latter work will not now be ready to go into my next show.

Finished preparing work for my next exhibition in Andover. 

Hung my latest solo exhibition in the morning.

Started painting in the second "Landscape Evocation" in the afternoon.  However because I, somehow, managed to slip a disc when hanging my show all work was curtailed as I had to go to the doctor!  - and wait there for an hour and twenty minutes!!

Finished painting in what was going to be called "Landscape Evocation Two" but is now entitled WING:NEW PASTORAL PAINTING.  I am relatively pleased with the presentation of images and combination of colours.

Finished the alterations to MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  Although the imagery has been modified the underlying concept remains the same.

Did the drawing stage of another "Walking On Water" painting.  Like the previous version this is a spontaneous response to a painting done in 1976 rather than a repainting of it. 

I also started a larger scale canvas, painted from a magazine cover.  The work will be a an elaborative presentation of a landscape with sculpture, analysing and extending the imagery and my impressions to it.

Did the drawing stage of two new paintings both with the working title: OBJECTS IN A LANDSCAPE.  Both are painted from my first "Mysterious Landscape" painting, which itself was based on a photo of an Irish landscape.  The paintings utilise grid markings which are filled in with landscape elements.  The second version incorporates some incongruous images derived from parts of the scenery.

Did a little more work on the the new "Transmutations" drawing.  The work has a repeated theme interspersed with variations.   I am hoping to do a new series of similar sequential and developmental works this year.

Continued with the drawing stage of the large scale landscape.  I am experimenting with differerent formats and means of presenting ideas but I am basically trying to integrate areas of representation with areas of condensed information.  The work has the working title of SCULPTURE IN A POOL.

Touched up, yet again, MYSTERIOUS LANDSCAPE - INVESTIGATION ONE.  I am categorically not reworking this painting anymore!

Finished the drawing stage of SCULPTURE IN A POOL.

I also did the drawing stage of two works in another new style.  These have the working title of FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE and comprise of a central geometric shape from which images and structures emanate.

I am doing some research for a couple of new works both provisionally called JOURNEY THROUGH A LANDSCAPE.  These have a ribbon like structure to which abbreviated elements fron a landscape or landscapes are attached.

I did several hours painting this afternoon.  Concentrating mainly on the painting in stage of the second (as yet not definitively titled) "Walking On Water" picture.

Spent most of the day (far too long!) finishing WALKING ON WATER II.  I could not get the colours to work together in a way I was entirely satisfied with.  After endless repainting I ended up with the original combination of colours!

Started painting in the second FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE (II).  This is the more conventional in terms of format with the geometric structure placed in a vague but recognisable landscape.

I finished the "Transmutations" drawing, finally called TRANSFORMATIONS.  I find these work of greatest intellectual interest as they encompass all my other artistic concerns and couple this with a philosophical element.  This latter can range from naively investigative to profoundly troubled and searching.

I also altered WALKING ON WATER II which I ostensibly finished yesterday.  I added background scenery which busied up the painting and made the composition of colours work much better.  I more pleased with it now than I was.

I continued working on the painting in of FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE (II).  The landscape component is complete but I have to do the central geometric structure and the perimeter.

Despite going to the doctor again and suffering manipulation by an osteopath I managed to more or less complete FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE (II) and do most of the painting in of FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE (I).  I am more pleased with the colour combinations of the latter; which is a marginally more complex work.

Finished both versions of FORMS IN A LANDSCAPE.  Both are, I think, adequately painted.

I started painting in both versions of OBJECTS IN A LANDSCAPE.  I need to reconsider the greens.  Both works are visually quite complex and, although indirectly based on a real scene, there are a great many variables in terms of colour combinations.

Repainted a conventional landscape, originally completed several years ago, which fell of the shelf in my studio and brought itself to my attention.  I didn't like the painting (or paintings as there are two versions) then - I still don't!

I only managed a couple of hours painting but continued with painting in OBJECTS IN A LANDSCAPE 1.

I planned to do some painting this afternoon but spent the afternoon in the garden.  I, however, did do a little more research for a new series of paintings.

I took down my exhibition at Andover Library.

I finished OBJECTS IN A LANDSCAPE 1 and did more painting in of the second variant.  I am intrigued with the idea of taking a skeleton of the original scene and utilising this to hang other imagery on. 

Finished OBJECTS IN A LANDSCAPE 2.  Like its predecessor it is based on a painting which itself was based on a photograph.  Consequently I tried to get, relatively!, subtle colour harmonies which would relate to the real scene.

I retouched the sea in NEW PASTORAL PAINTING which I feel has improved the painting dramatically.

I also started painting in SCULPTURE IN A POOL.

I have carried on painting in SCULPTURE IN A POOL.  I have developed painting habits and it is sometimes difficult combining observed representation with symbolic interpretation.

I have continued with the painting stage of SCULPTURE IN A POOL.  The conventionally representational elements seem to have been unconsciously suppressed!

I am still working on SCULPTURE IN A POOL although I was not able to paint all day.  This painting is a coming together of a number of different approaches to representing landscape.

I am also researching several new directions, which, hopefully, I can explore in the coming months.

I finished SCULPTURE IN A POOL - I painted in the final symbols and also some of the background areas which have more of a exact link with reality.

I also started one of two paintings under the working title of "Journey Through A Landscape".  This has a simple sequential format of a winding stream of images derived from a series of photos of gardens.

Finished the drawing stage of the first and second version a "Journey Through A Landscape".  Both have similar formats, although one has predominantly vertical image strands and the other has horizontal.

I painted in VISTA ONE.  This is a small completely improvised landscape - one of two which I drew when waiting for my wife to have her hair cut!  Both works are modest in scale and intent.

I also started to prepare some new hardboard panels for a new series of works.

I finished VISTA TWO.  A work very similar to the first one - although the colours are more considered in this version.

I also started painting in the first "Journey Through A Landscape".  Painting in the backgound in neutral colours which may prove too dark.