'Another Clockwork Day', oil on canvas, 150 x 120cms, 2023
As we enter September, and are nearly two thirds into 2023, I’ve been reflecting recently on the paintings I’ve made this year. I’m always experimenting in my work, even if it is sometimes just in small incremental ways, but this year I think in my attempt to shift things on and branch out, I am finding I’m making a much more diverse and interesting range of work than I have in some time.
'The Last Days of Disco', oil on canvas, 150 x 200cms, 2023
''The Night Watch', oil on canvas, 100 x 120cms, 2023
Many of these paintings have started to include the figure and include more narrative elements. Many of the paintings also explore the relationship between the figure and different spaces and how to represent this. There are also some ideas developing around my occasional interest in still life painting, this time with studies of ‘found’ still lives around my home.
'TV Dinner', oil on canvas, 50 x 75cms, 2023
'The Aquariam', oil on canvas, 60 x 90cms, 2023
New things are happening that are also in dialogue with older ideas I was interested in many years ago and my landscape work. I see lots of connections, but also as if I am peeling back another layer of the same onion to reveal a bit more of the ongoing different interests I have.
'The Days Get Dark', oil on canvas, 100 x 120cms, 2023
I’ve no idea what the next painting will be right now and that’s exciting.
