Current and recent work
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At last, the great ‘Jubilee’ project is over – the painting is finished! Please see ‘Jubilee’ for more information on this painting and see 'Buy Paintings' to find out about buying a limited-edition signed print of this painting.
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You can see my ‘Jubilee’ painting and many others at my home and studio as part of the ‘Brockley Open Studio Event 2010’ (q.v. www.brockleyopenstudios.co.uk ), my address is 1 Wickham Gardens, Brockley, London, SE4 1LY. The opening times are as follows -
Saturday 3rd July, 2.00-8.00pm
Sunday 4th July, 2.00-8.00pm
Monday 5th July, 5.00-8.00pm -
In contrast to my highly detailed show-piece paintings like ‘Blickling Hall’ and ‘Canary Wharf seen from Hilly Fields, Brockley’ (and ‘Jubilee’ mentioned above), I have started work on some far simpler reflective paintings like my ‘The Other Side’ series, many of which have been inspired by the music of Brian Eno. I paint these in between other work including long and intensive sessions of work on ‘Jubilee’ as a kind of relief from the technical tensions that those highly detailed paintings commit me to. These quieter paintings will feature in the next Open Studio day in Brockley.
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Discussions have started with a major independent television production company about a TV series of my own about art – but with a special twist, though I can’t describe what it’s about for obvious reasons. So far a ‘taster tape’ of me presenting the proposed programme has been made and the reaction has been very good. A major UK broadcaster has been very enthusiastic about the idea - and me, however, I’ve been down this road many times before, and because it is so very hard to get anything past all the final hurdles in the world of television I’m not ‘counting any chickens’ yet.
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Work continues towards producing paintings for another formal exhibition (the date and venue for which still have to be fixed). The likely title and theme for the exhibition will be ‘Full Circle’ a semi-autobiographical display of paintings of various stone circles around the British Isles.