‘Journey’ (61 x 91 cms).
One of three paintings on board of almost identical format that I started around the same time in 2020 and finished years apart, exhibiting earlier iterations of two of them. They still feel connected in their rhythms of inside and outside, abrupt spatial shifts and a feeling of different places eliding. I tend to work on paintings very discontinuously, and they go through many different states and changes of direction. Sometimes the space/narrative changes radically, sometimes the configuration stays pretty much the same but gets redone over and over again until it feels right. I’ve come to think that paintings can have many viable states, and as long as the drawing is alive, as long as you are inside the image there are lots of different points where you can stop.
2. ‘The Comforters, or Piero’s Bollocks’
3. ‘Wrestlers in a Landscape (Jacob and the Angel)’
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Some drawings of Euston Road/British Library/St Pancras/King's Cross from Summer and Autumn last year.
Three great, totally unique but sympathetic buildings sitting in a row.
Two terracotta panels of the Poolbeg Incinerator from the Strand road (in the January high winds).
The two panels were done from memory, the third image is a drawing done on the spot, enough graphic info to remember the silvery light, the beautiful gleam of the incinerator, the wind in the windmill palms, the sand in my face.
1. terracotta panel (with coloured slip and oxides), 16.3 x 10.7cms
2. glazed terracotta panel, 13.5 x 16cms
3. pencil and pastel on paper, 29.7 x 21cms
M E M E N T O A M O R I S
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Until 15 March 2026
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Readers
Oil, pastel, pencil on paper mounted on board
30 x 33cm
2025
£550
2 G2
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This small painting on paper, 'Readers', is included in 'Memento Amoris' opening this evening @lido_stores_margate
On till the 15th March.
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The Tyne.
A memory drawing done after a walk along the Gateshead side in early Summer last year from @bazbarron 's flat. Walking inland, the city seems to come to an end disconcertingly quickly, with trees rising steeply up on both sides. Looking back, the city eventually appears entirely underneath the high bridges. It is hard to square this with the experience of jostling buildings piled-up on the opposite bank as you walk back into town. The Tyne is a proper river every bit as mysterious as the Thames, one that you can imagine being poured out of a massive urn by a river god just a bit further up.
