(Wherever that might be. Leonard Cohen seems to know.) Anyway, it sounds as if it might come close to describing my present mood as I get back into painting again. The experience of my “art retreat” in Derbyshire seems to be paying off, as I am now into my second composition in a new series. … Read more
For the first time in ages I have managed to spend almost all of the day in front of the easel, working on a new picture. I would have been so disappointed had my resolution to do this been thwarted by some trivial intrusion. I had selected the support and the medium (oil pastels) in … Read more
The germ of a pictorial idea has been generating for the past few days, but one of the main obstacles to my getting started on it (apart from being too busy) has been my indecision about an appropriate medium and support. I’ve done a rough sketch, and have a pretty good idea of how I … Read more
I have a problem….an artistic problem. I need advice pretty soon. It’s like this. Several years ago I did a group of five pictures dealing with the season of Advent. (This is the season of the church’s year that leads up to Christmas, in case you don’t know.) They were displayed at the appropriate time … Read more