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gestation

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                                      self portrait at seventy six. oil on wood panel. 55x52 cms                                      landscape , spine. oil on canvas. 120x120cms. I do like my paintings to develop slowly as it gives me time to rethink things. This s.p. began four or five years ago and both it and I have changed. The hair is more grey, the moustache less full, the cheeks re more lined and all this while the painting waited, its face turned to the wall. I would take it back and repaint it, editing some what, leaving some areas intact, removing and overpainting others before returning it to its waiting room. There are others which have experienced the same slow roll of time. It feels more than a notation or a snapshot and more like scrutinising, experiencing the passage of time with pai...

Thoughts at a brocante

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                                                             oil on canvas. 50x50cms   oil on canvas. 50x50cms oil on canvas. 50x50cms                                                             oil on canvas. 100x100cms                                                                 oil on canvas. 50x50cms I wasn't at the brocante to buy anything, just looking. Some paintings caught my eye and I did spend some time with them thinking about the painters and what they had wanted to achieve. This led me to reflect that if these...

Recent paintings 1

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                                                Morning. oil on canvas. 100x100cms Although this painting is not featured in the online exhibition at The Concrete Cube gallery I am giving a  little plug for the site here as it has been superbly orchestrated and I am very pleased to have been given the opportunity to show with them. https://www.concretecube.co.uk. It has been a while since I have posted here, primarily because I have felt unable to say anything constructive. I will however show some new paintings if not least to show that I have not been idle.                                             evening in the garden. oil on canvas. 100x100cms