The Little Picture Show.

It's January and the skies are dark and grey outside. It rains incessantly and there's little colour to see in the landscape. I'm drawing on all the vivid images from sunnier days stored in my mind for such a moment and my palette reflects this. Two pictures for The Little Picture Show at the Albany next month. Measuring just 20 x 30 cms, they still take as much work as the larger canvases I normally use.

         
                                             Reasons To Be Cheerful (2). Oil on Canvas.

   Yesterday. Oil on Canvas.

The New Year.

A lot of things got in the way of work last year.  Losing my old Mercedes in July was a blow and I spent too long wishing I hadn't parked in that particular street at that particular time and why did a man just happen to lose control of his car that morning ploughing into mine while I was elsewhere! I wasted time trying to find a replacement but gave up in the end realising that nothing could take the place of a car that came travelling with me across Europe to the South of France and back every summer for fourteen years sometimes making a detour to see my family in Frankfurt. I thought I would have it for ever. It was October before I gave up looking and bought a completely different car.