Finished drawing stage of eighth painting in the Meditative Landscape series I am currently working on.  With this series I am not working from life but from abbreviated ideas and structures I sketched out first.

Working on  painting called "Landscape From A Garden" from new Meditative Landscape series.  Are these paintings too green biased?

Finished "Landscape From A Garden".  I am quite pleased with the colours and spontaneous symbols.  Possibly the green hedge line should have been lighter.

Painted the perimeter of five other Meditative Landscapes

Started the painting stage of Meditative Landscape  provisionally entitled "Moving Through Southern Wiltshire"

Continuing to work on "Moving Through Southern Wiltshire".  Need to define the initiating symbols before I commence.

Still working on frame for Chris Morris.

Still working on "Moving Through Southern Wiltshire".

Finished framing painting for Chris Morris

Delivered framed painting to Chris Morris

Finished main painting stage of "Moving Through Southern Wiltshire".  NB. This was  later titled "Moving Through A Southern County".

Working on Meditative Landscape provisionally called "Bridge In A Landscape".  Repainted part of Remembered Landscape and Landscape Viewed From A garden.

Continuing to work on "Bridge In A Landscape".  Also working on "Landscape Viewed From An Automobile".

Working on "Bridge In A Landscape" and "Landscape From An Automobile".  The colours of the former work reasonably well.

Continued to work on "Landscape From An Automobile".

Continued working on "Landscape From An Automobile".  Using accidentally derived symbols in one passage,

Finished "Landscape From An Automobile".  I quite like the combination turquise and yellow/green in the background although it probably stands out too much.  The paintings may be too dark - This probably comes from me working too close to the board.  Started "Meditation In A Wood".

Working on some of the background symbols of "Bridge In A Landscape".  Need now to find sources for trees.  "Continued working on "Meditation In A Wood".  Principally putting in the background scenery using a blue bias.

Working on other set of background symbols of "Bridge In A landscape".  Doing foreground of "Meditation In A Garden" - using a palette of browns.  I am undecided how to tackle the mid ground area.

Finished tyhe main painting stage of "Meditation In A Wood".  I am quite pleased with the effects I am getting breaking up the green with brown and red brown.

Collected paintings from Courtyard Cafe Gallery in Winchester.

Started painting "Remembered Landscape".

Continued work on "Remembered Landscape".  I quite like the naturalistic effects.

Continued working on "Meditation In A Garden" and Viaduct.  Lightened sky in "Landscape From An Automobile" and "Moving Through A Landscape".

Finshed "Viaduct".  Worked on "Meditation In A Wood"  Utilised seed catalogue as a source material for symbols representing plant forms and processes.

Delivered 3 paintings to St Peter's Church, Marlborough for Marlborough Artists exchibition.

Finshed "Meditation In A Wood" and "Remembered Landscape".  Used abbreviations from landscape elements in latter.

Redid part of "Remembered Landscape".  Finished and then reworked "Bridge In A Landscape" - will need to redo tomorrow: I am putting in realistic sections in abstracted landscape but overworked it (should have left it more spontaneous).

Started the preliminary drawing part of "Landscape In Front Of The Sea" and "Garden Three"  Working from photos in books which is a new departure.

Redid part of "Bridge In A Landscape" - Still not totally happy with it.

Finished the drawing part of  "Landscape Before The Sea" and "Garden Three".  Made a start on the painting.

Started painting in stage of "Garden Three"

Ordered canvas for large scale abstract commission.

Continued painting in of "Garden Three".

Repainted part of "Bridge In A Landscape".  The effect is still not right but it is an improvement on what it was.

Continued working on "Landscape Before The Sea".  I felt the composition was a bit sparse so I repainted part of the lower section.

Began preparing paintings for forthcoming shows.

Continued working on  "Landscape Before The Sea".

Continued preparing paintings for forthcoming shows.

Completed framing for Hexagon, Reading and Harvey Gallery, Guildford exhibitions.

Delivered and hung 20 works at Hexagon, Reading.  I organised show for myself and Geoff Francis.

Delivered and hung 16 works in Harvey gallery, Guildford.  This is part of six person show I organised.

Finished "Garden Before The Sea".  I am using a lighter border which I feel works better.  Delivered and hung 2 more paintings to Hexagon, Reading.

Completed "Garden Three".

Started work on "Metamorphoses" and Transfiguration".

Starting work on a new Meditative Landscape - as yet unnamed.  As the primer did not feel fully set I did the initial drawing with acrylic - this proved far easier than drawing with oils.  With the latter I need a synthetic hog but with acrylic I managed with a synthetic sable.  I washed over the completed drawing with water thinned acrylic.

I primed 4 16x20 and 4 12x16 hardboard panels.

Very little time today - did a bit of painting on new Meditative Landscape.

Even less time today - carried on with new Meditative Landscape.

Bank Holiday.  Only worked in the evening but finished the main painting of "Garden Meditation".  This is a very simple interpretation of the scene but I am reasonably pleased with it.

Finished "Garden Meditation".

Starting framing for the Frome exhibition.

Prepared paintings for Black Swan Arts Exhibition.

Delivered 16 paintings to Black Swan Arts, Frome.  This turned out to be a bit of an adventure!

Started work on two new landscapes: "Metamorphoses In A Garden" and "Transfiguration In A Garden".  These works combine image sequence blocks with background landscapes.  The initial drawing in is done with thinned black acrylic.

Continued working on "Metamorphoses In A Garden".  I have done the initial drawing of the main image sequence and started filling in the colour of the background landscape.

Completed drawing sequence of "Transfiguration In A Garden".  Finished main painting of "Metamorphoses In A Garden".

Working on main painting of  "Transfiguration In A Garden". 

Opened my studio as part of Test Valley Open Arts

Completed main painting part of  "Transfiguration In A Garden".

Started a series of watercolour pencil sketches under the title "Random Expressions".  These are studies for a large scale painting commission I have,

Started painting called "Postcards From Holidays In My Head".  This is one of a pair of paintings exploring a new landscape style which is derived from studies for large landscapes I hope to start soon.

Finished a series of watercolour pencil sketches under the title "Random Expressions".

Started another "Postcards From Holidays In My Head".

Working on both of the "Postcards From Holidays In My Head".  Filling in the paint areas.  I am using a mix of ordinary oils and watersoluble oils.  I only have a few of the latter left - mainly lemon yellow and naples yellow.  This has significantly lightened my palette!

Completed both of  "Postcards From Holidays In My Head".  I redefined all the linear elements and finished the painting in.

Started work on a series of 4 canvases - 18x24 acrylic primed linen canvas.  I am working from farther way and trying to stand up to paint where possible.  I am using larger brushes when practical.

I have done the intial drawing in of two works: "Chequered Sun" and "Classical Composition" - I started painting in the former.