One of a series I started on last year and want to get back to in time. There`s another one on this page (see below, right). These are groups of people posing together (as if for a camera), their bodies seem partly melded together, one dark mass, dressed similarly and faces indistinct/unrecognisable, but still they are somehow separate, looking at the camera/viewer and not each other. I want to convey the sense of being `alone in a crowd` or the basic `aloneness` or `separateness` of a person even when in the company of others, be they friends, family or strangers, a feeling/sense I have always assumed most people will recognise, albeit experienced differently by each of us. I may be completely wrong and this could be something peculiar to some and alien to others, I don`t really know, but I`m hoping I`ve managed to get this onto the canvas with more succes than I am having attempting to put it into words.

Why stop at the edge of the canvas?

Another collision course

One in a series of `collision course` paintings. A recurring theme in my work is movement. I try to bring a sense of movement, speed and/or strength to the work and hope the viewer feels it, rather than sees it.

Over a year ago I set up my blog, put a barebones profile on, stuck in a few photographs of some of my work and decided I`d get down to posting some text the day after. We`re now more than one year along, the pictures are still the same and here, finally, are the first few lines. For someone who didn`t grow up `online` this is a fairly big step to take, since ... what to write, really? I`m an artist and I draw and paint pictures and hope they do the talking for me and mostly they do. But now that a very good friend of mine has put a link to my blog on her very good blogspot (thanks Kim!), I can`t leave things empty, so now the plan is regular postings of work and maybe a few lines to go along with them when I think they`re needed.
So off goes the first posting of, hopefully, more to come.