Thursday 26 June 2014

New solo show just confirmed for November 22, 2014 -January 3 2015 Herringer Kiss Gallery. Thank you Deborah for the opportunity. Excited to see the new series up for the first time.

Thursday 5 June 2014

 The one thing I have always done is look.
For hours or days on end without a single brush mark. I don't even have to be in front of my painting. It is always on my mind. I am always thinking about and worrying about my next move or my next painting. Not that I plan or that I am so careful with my next step but I do think and look as the painting slows down. At the beginning there is a getting to know the painting time, where I find my way through the painting by painting. Building up and ripping down. Then there is a time where you get down to the last ten brush marks that can be very slow. Seeing when it is done. I paint them until I get them right. What is right? Well right for me has always been a place where I feel that I can leave the painting. It is never about a certain look or style. Because sometimes the best place to leave a painting is where it is uncomfortably right. A place that is not familiar but a place that allows you to move on to the next one without looking back.  



                                       
New painting in progress June 2014

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Whew... tough one today. Half way through my new painting and it is a hard one that is for sure. I am working a totally different way now. Cutting small pieces and putting them together. Seeing the image come and go. Back and forth. Trying to fight my way out of the painting. A lot of fun but what a mental workout.