Next up is this weird but (to me) interesting painting. I have no idea where this came from. I mean obviously I painted it, I can remember a lot of the brush/knife marks but I seem to have painted instinctively rather than a planned painting and as it's much more figurative than usual it's a bit of a departure. Think I went down a rabbit hole with this one hence the name Alice. It's 50x70cm and it kept me quite engaged for a long period.

So much gorgeous blossom around at the moment and a huge variety of nesting birds. I've started to identify the different bird calls, thanks to the lack of cars and noise in general and also it must be said a little patience, not something I'm known for hahaha

I now tend to think of this trio of colours as my own lockdown palette. It's actually a re-work of a painting that I was never really convinced of. The original was done when I was housebound for a period of time and these colours have come up again now. Anyway I was running out of canvas and was rummaging in my old work and found the base of this one.I'm quite happy with it now, it reminds me of golden spring evenings

When I can't paint for whatever reason, I try at least to play with digis. Sometimes - thanks in part to the undo function I even manage to produce something I like.

Hope everyone is keeping safe. This has been a fight from start to finish. My mind is constantly wandering, which is not surprising with everything that's going on at the mo, plus my mind tends to wander at the best of times . but painting is usually my safe little world, now it seems that everything is on a tilt and like many people I'm finding it difficult to get a grip. Anyway glad I've managed to finish this little 30x30cm. It looks like I've tried to bring some order here hence the name.

Another minimum palette and pure knifework, which is my fav way of working. I work on the floor for these cos it gives a greater freedom for the sweeping curved strokes which for me are a great part of working with knives, although I must say my bum gets very numb on the floor haha.

Here's the second - distraction,construction or there will always be a dog hahaha. Both 50x40cms. Minimum palette, gold,white and black

Well that was a long time between posts. I've just realized quite how long i, actually since the beginning of our current situation and it probably would have been longer were it not for a lovely visitor to the site, who prompted me to get cracking again.Thank you - you know who you are. I suppose like many of, us recent events have thrown us for a bit of loop.I've personally found it difficult to paint with any regularity and if I manage to post on insta as well, I'm having a good day haha. Anyway I'm gonna play catch up. So here are the 3 small 30x30cm that were finished around the same time as the landscapy painting on the previous post. Available as single pieces or all together.

This is the first of 2 that I painted as an antidote to all the greens I'd been using, someone suggested they be called 'Construction', I'd thought 'Distraction' or there'll always be a dog, cos there is often a dog that sneaks into my paintings and these 2 are no exception

OK so here's the first of the four to be finished yay. It's a bit more landscapy than my usual but still with enough abstraction thrown in to satisfy me. 50x50 cm on deep edge canvas.

Just thought I'd show you some of the paintings currently being worked on. It's rare for me to work on only one at a time. I like to go back an forth between them all depending on my mood. They're reaching the final stages now and should be posted soon.

Still in winter mode - another in The Quiet Season series. This one has more texture than the others mainly cos I've been mainly using pallette knives on this. I do love my knives.