Lucca 1

Two canvases, positively loaded with moulding paste, pumice gel and three acrylic colours. The idea is to work from this sketch:

I love the double viewpoint.

Monumental buildings and shadowy streets,

where you can almost smell the centuries.

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