I completed the main paint layer on AVEBURY: APOTHEOSIS OF A STONE CIRCLE - although I may paint over part of the left hand side.

Out in the morning; I started to paint SIMPLE SIMON PICTURE: GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS when I got back. This painting harks back to the repeated circle works of 1977/79.

I cannot understand why there are so many domestic things to do this year!  I started to repaint the lines on AVEBURY: APOTHEOSIS OF A STONE CIRCLE, fair bit more to do however.

Saturday and I completed repainting the lines on AVEBURY: APOTHEOSIS OF A STONE CIRCLE - didn't do anything else though.

I decided carry on the gardening tasks I started on Sunday.  In consequence I only did a relatively small amount of work in my studio.  I started to repaint the lines on THE WESSEX MAN CONCEPT - SELF PORTRAIT ON A BRIDGE.

I carried on repainting lines on THE WESSEX MAN CONCEPT - SELF PORTRAIT ON A BRIDGE.  I had to go out half a dozen times which was a tad disruptive!

I finished enhancing the lines (plus some other detailing) on THE WESSEX MAN CONCEPT - SELF PORTRAIT ON A BRIDGE.  I only had to go out five times!

Worked again (in between nursing sick animals) on SIMPLE SIMON: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS.  The rest of this year will have to be more productive.

I finished SIMPLE SIMON: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, filling in circles and adding gestural symbols.  I plan to spend tomorrow working on web sites etc. on the computer.

I started work (if you can call it that - drawing small circles round pegboard holes!) on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART. 

I carried on with SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART but I had a late start and progress was a little slow (plus there are an awful lot of holes!).

I completed all the circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART - which took all of an admittedly disrupted day.

Hardly any time to paint at all (these days get worse!) But made a start painting the strands on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART.

Completed the strands and started painting in the circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART. Although the day included more trips to the vets and me finishing painting earlier than planned.

Most of the day was spent filling in circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART.

I am very behind with writing and other paperwork.

Still filling in circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART.  This took a large part of a laid back type of day (Sunday).

Still behind with writing and paperwork!

I completed painting the circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART - hooray!  Nothing else done.

I finished SIMPLE SIMON: THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF TELEPHONE ART by adding detailing and numerals etc.  I better now get back to some more serious work!

I spent most of the day repainting or retouching works that had got damaged in storage.  Nothing else was done except a few sketch book drawings.

I continued partially repainting and/or retouching various old works during a fairly truncated day.

I repainted parts of PORTRAIT FROM THE BACK which had got damaged while in the possession of a gallery.  Nothing else was done because of other commitments.

I completed an A6 book of pencil drawings, all predominantly concerned with the human figure incorporated into a landscape.

I then added symbols (in oil) to MAN & THE VOID and started doing likewise to FIGURE WAITING AT A DOOR.

I completed adding symbols to FIGURE WAITING AT A DOOR thus finishing the work.

I then added symbols to MAN LEAVING A LANDSCAPE (these will need additional painting) and started adding them to SELF PORTRAIT IN A BOX.

After a bit of gardening I spent most of the day working on my web site.  I didn't do much art work in my studio.

I finished adding the symbols to SELF PORTRAIT IN A BOX.  I also did some detailing and general fiddling about.

I then filled in the symbols on MAN LEAVING A LANDSCAPE, completing the work.

After this I began to add the initial pencil lines etc. to an experimental new work entitled THE ACROBAT.  This work harks back to the combined text/image works of the Seventies. 

I started work on THE ACROBAT in earnest.  I went over yesterday's pencil lines with acrylic paint and then added further detailing within the sequential blocks.  I am out all day tomorrow.

I added more imagery to THE ACROBAT in the morning - had to go out in the afternoon. 

Most of my time in my studio was spent uploading photos of my work to my Windows Live site.  I have close to 800 works represented.

I filled in the imagery with colour, added more text phrases and other detailing to THE ACROBAT.  I finished the work too late in the day to start anything else, although I did do some pencil drawings.

I returned to work on the GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE series of small painting, I redefined the lines (in oils) of the first work in series and almost finished this stage of another.

I continued with my line repainting although the day was full of family distractions.  I also did some pencil sketches.

I was out most of the day but when in my studio I carried on repainting the lines on the GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE pictures.

I worked again on the GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE series in between work on the computers.  I finished redefining the lines of two more works.

I also started painting in circles for another "Simple Simon" repeated circle work entitled SELF PORTRAIT WITH A MARGIN.

I reinforced the lines of the remaining three GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE while listening to cricket commentary on the radio (although I wish I hadn't done the latter!).  I also added the titles.

The works have the following names: GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - BABY HEARS SOME NEWS, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - ANGEL MAKES A DISCOVERY, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - MARY MAKES A DECISION, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - JOSEPH KNOWS IT ALL, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - THE SHEPHERD FINDS A SECRET, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - BABY SAYS HIS PIECE, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - MARY HAS A BALL, GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - ANGEL CAUSES A STIR.

I have got toothache and I meant to spend the day painting as I didn't feel like gardening.  However, most of the time was spent on the computer amending my web sites.

I discovered I have a tooth abscess so a large part of the day was spent waiting outside a dentist's surgery (lots of pencil drawings in small sketch book!).  I did a little more work on SIMPLE SIMON - SELF PORTRAIT WITH A MARGIN but mostly wrote sundry things on the computers.

Now on antibiotics and no alcohol for five days!

I spent much of the day painting paynes grey acrylic circles on SIMPLE SIMON - SELF PORTRAIT WITH A MARGIN (bit of gardening in the morning - I can't get into gardening at the moment).

I completed the painting of almost endless circles on SIMPLE SIMON - SELF PORTRAIT WITH A MARGIN.  Nothing much else was done.

Not a lot of work done - I was out visiting.  I did the charcoal drawing stage of three works SIMPLE SIMON: DOVES ON A ROOF TOP, SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS and SIMPLE SIMON: ELECTROMAGNETIC MEMORIES REFORM IN DEEP SPACE.  All three works will be in acrylic on acrylic medium primed pegboard.I 

I went over the charcoal lines of SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS and SIMPLE SIMON: ELECTROMAGNETIC MEMORIES REFORM IN DEEP SPACE in acrylic medium - this took far longer than it should have done.

I spent a large part of the day catching up on paperwork (and the remainder doing inconsequential things!).  No painting!

I worked most of the day on SIMPLE SIMON: DOVES ON A ROOF TOP: painting small circles around the pegboard holes, using acrylic paint. 

I am out with the family tomorrow - so any work done will be in my head!

I finished the small circle painting on SIMPLE SIMON: DOVES ON A ROOF TOP (while writing a new play in my head).

I then started adding more circles to SIMPLE SIMON: ELECTROMAGNETIC MEMORIES REFORM IN DEEP SPACE.

I completed painting circles on SIMPLE SIMON: ELECTROMAGNETIC MEMORIES REFORM IN DEEP SPACE.

I then started the far larger task of painting them on SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS.

Out and about but also carried on with the task of painting circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS.

I did a little more circle painting on SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS (in between gardening and countless domestic things).

Sunday: I continued with the circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS.  However, not a great deal was actually done.

I managed to finish the circles on SIMPLE SIMON: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID RE-ENACTED INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAN WAITING FOR A NUMBER 38 BUS.  I then did a little more work on this painting and others in the series.

Back on marginally more serious work: I drew and then painted in the symbols on GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - BABY HEARS SOME NEWS.  Then the day petered out with writing and a lot of paper work - life is hard!

I added symbols to GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - ANGEL CAUSES A STIR.  Once I had started this work I made a tentative start on another.

I completed GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - ANGEL MAKES A DISCOVERY - drawing symbols and then painting them in.  Because of a late start I did not have time to do any more.

I carried on working on members of the "Group Portrait In A Landscape" series.  I drew and painted symbols on GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - JOSEPH KNOWS IT ALL, completing the work.

I spent most of the day working on web sites, paper work etc. - somewhat chilled out but I did do some drawing.

I added symbols to GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - MARY MAKES A DECISION - the fifth in the series.  After completing the work I had to go out.

I finished GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - THE SHEPHERD FINDS A SECRET by adding symbols and then filling them in with paint.  This is the sixth work; the day when I will have to return to the two very large "Meditative Field Paintings" draws closer.

I completed the penultimate group portrait (as before by painting in symbols which innately evolve but correspond, at least initially, to the theme).  This work is entitled GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - MARY HAS A BALL.  A day out with the family tomorrow.

I drew and filled in the symbols of the last in this series of works: GROUP PORTRAIT IN A LANDSCAPE - BABY SAYS HIS PIECE.  I will probably spend tomorrow writing and next week I want to get more DIY and garden jobs completed.  This year has been considerably more domestically orientated than previous ones!

I've been poorly this week (don't know why) and I couldn't get out in the garden at all today so spent some time in my studio completing a work I started some time ago: namely SEVERAL (SIX, FOUR, TWO) FIGURES IN A DARKENED ROOM - THE INVENTION OF STOCHASTIC FURNITURE (MARIE ANTOINETTE VERSION).  I pencilled arrangements of rudimentary figures and then painted over them.  Out and then working on the computer tomorrow.

Last week, which I planned to devote to garden and DIY, didn't follow expectations as I spent most of the time on the computers sorting my photos of my work into sets (divided by year or type).  Somehow I have lost scores of images so I will have to redo them at some point (the quality of many others is poor and there are hundreds more which I never got round to taking - a lot of photography to schedule in!).

I started another Peter panic-ish improvisation, initially in pencil which I will go over with paint.  I am calling the work IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE.  Peter Panic (or Petronella Pan) encompasses my figurative developmental pictures, as distinct from the more abstract symbol based pieces.

I continued to add pencil images to IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE, each ones based on the preceding image.  I didn't do as much as I hoped and I am out all day tomorrow.

Progress is frustratingly slow on IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE.

There is little time to work this weekend.  I carried on adding pencil images to IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE.

I didn't go out into the garden as planned (despite the fact that the weeds are practically six feet tall) so managed to finish the pencil drawing stage of IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE.

I started a new developmental improvisation entitled IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL.  Like the previous work I am pencilling in the images first.

I did further work on IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL.  I should finish the drawing stage tomorrow (hopefully I will have more energy!).

I finished the drawing stage of IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL; this work is far more chaotic and disorganised than the preceding Improvisation.

I started to paint over the pencil lines of IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL with acrylic jar colour.  This is a frustrating task as the brush wont let me be as precise as I would wish (or I wont allow the brush!).

An hour of painting and then unfortunately I had to go to a funeral; I was out the remainder of the day.

I carried on the process of painting the pencil lines on IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL (after a late, weekend style, start).

I completed IMPROVISATION SIX - CROWNED HILL; by painting over the remainder of the pencil lines, adding some detailing and filling in.

Out with June, although I did bits and pieces in my studio when I got back home.  The "bits and pieces" included quite a lot of writing, which is a direction I would like to concentrate more on.

I began the slow (at the moment!) process of painting over the pencil lines on the other improvisation: IMPROVISATION FIVE - SNIFFING SUBMARINE.  Lots of other ideas in my head but no boards or canvases to paint on.