Pavane

A small exercise in grief.

Embankment Series

I called in at Tate Modern for a pee and Tate Britain for coffee and cake, but didn't look at a single painting.

I expect it shows.

Anywhere or Nowhere

An antidote to the big sky painting of Tuesday, 14 September.

But I found myself gazing at an acre of dirt with nowhere to go, so I added the road.

Roads like clouds, enable us to dream.

Mellow Fruitfulness Part 2

The real struggle doesn't take place on the canvas...

It's knowing what you want that requires so much effort.

Countdown

The last box of 10 canvases: opened today.

Famous Last Words

I spent a morning looking at it and decided I just couldn't live with those colours.

"Unless you say goodbye to the things you love and unless you travel to completely unknown destinations you can merely expect a slow wearing-away of yourself and an eventual extinction."

GEORGE DUBUFFET

Mellow Fruitfulness

Quince 1: Insouciant Hansa Yellow, Carbon Black and a little Titanium White. But it has nothing of the subject's weighty, muscularity.

Quince 2: An attempt to do things properly. But the underpainting is too wet and Carbon Black infests my colours. When I attempt to resolve the shape I lose my way. The end result is merely safe.

Quince 3: I seem intent on boring myself.

This feels a bit more like painting.