2024: New Work

I have spent 12 years making something every day adding to a long procession of elements, each one part of the whole as well as a member of any number of groups and a single entity. This year I have taken some time to review the work and revisit it without any set idea or predicted outcomes. Please see below for non-regular dips in to what I have been doing.

July 23rd

Took the July pieces outside in their birth-month. Find it interesting and nervous making how delicate and vulnerable they are – even more so when outside. When arranged together in wild areas of the garden they remind me of a swarms, flocks or herds. A couple of times I lost one in the process of photographing them – happily found them eventually. The ritual of counting them in and out of their box has become important to me – always a relief when they are all present and correct – reminds me of taking the register at school. Here are a few pics of one sketchbook work in watercolour and a few sections of larger works-in-progress using watercolour and oil pastels.