Fear, anger, anxiety, powerlessness. These are often generated by bad news items. Sometimes I have responded by producing art work, not...

This another selection of work done over the last 18 months. Most of the output over this time was in charcoal and/or pastel. Sometimes...

I've been building up to having a splash around with paint, but have been a bit unsure as to how to start. By chance I was doing some...

While doing lots of these experimental mark-making drawings, at some point last year I latched on to holding a stick of charcoal flat on...

Scribbles can lead to hints of life. Sorry if that is pretentious. But if lots of short straight line are mixed with arcs and circles,...

I'm going to try and use this blog to classify or make some sense of the work I have been doing over the last 18 months or so. I started...

Thursday Feb 22,2024. Here is a recent drawing, just to see if the system still works.

This is a record of some experimental work that I have been doing for a month or two, It is about pure, formal designs altered by random...

The last few weeks have been full of other issues, including the allotment. I have more space to fill now. In a battle with established...

I start with the one from my last blog 8 days ago. I draw one figure, add others and the idea grows almost on its own. I started another...

On Wednesday I did a demo in Pinner. First live appearance for about 16 months. I set up a still life group of larger objects since my...

Firstly, I start with the final version of the pastel improvisation that featured in my last blog. Not sure about it. In planning what to...

I start with the pastel I was doing in my last blog, final version Actually I did do a bit more since that photo was taken. Anyway,...

Following on from recent charcoal drawings based on trees, I decided to work in colour using pastels. Starting with as near to “random”...

I start with yet another invented charcoal drawing. Trees and roots are so expressive. In doing some research on Van Gogh I found this...

Here is the final image of the card and tissue paper construction And here it is above the telly along with other items that I am adding...

The invented structure made of cardboard has been covered with strips of tissue paper, yellow, pink, orange and pale mauve with a little...

It is about 3 weeks since I posted, though I did try a few days ago, but lost all the work I had done over about half an hour. Anyway,...

I start with a repeat of one that was buried in last weeks blog. A blurry image in my shaving mirror- I picked some parsnips from my...

I start with this strange pastel drawing. Where did it come from? The work started with this photo of a crumpled drape- Tones and colours...