It has been a while since I wrote something here although it is not as if nothing has been happening.
I have been offered an exhibition by Atelier East in Wisbech. They have asked me to exhibit some work in the Angles Theatre there in May next year. Also Theartbay in Stoke on Trent asked me if I would exhibit some work at their gallery in the town and I delivered 7 paintings last week. They have also scanned the work and will be putting the reproductions up for sale in Debenhams in Stoke.
I am putting a collection of 15 paintings together for a show in the Wild at Heart Gallery, Broxhome in Lincolnshire for July this year. Four paintings are currently being shown at Forge Arts a gallery in Hackthorn, Lincolnshire and I have a painting accepted for the OPEN08 Exhibition at Alfred East Gallery in Kettering
I am working on a number of pieces, all different in their rationale and intention, which is how I perfer to do things. I get quite bored simply repeating myself in picture after picture. I like to think I am about creating images that vary in their content, materials, styles and in what they 'say' to the viewer, assuming, of course, that they communicate anything at all.
However it is also true to say that whatever I do it is about the relationship of us humans and nature. I like to make references to various natural processes in such a way that they stand as symbols for human thought and behaviour, albeit to varying degrees of clarity and understanding. After all without mystery life can be quite uninteresting.
The picture above - Wren, King of the birds - is a slight reworking of one I completed a couple of years ago. I wasn't happy with some aspects of the image where I think they needed enhancing with greater tonal contrast. The other - In a Celtic glade was completed recently.
