From 19th February2022 newletter - I’m behind with posting!

I’m on a complete shift around and sort out in my studio - changing the space and trying my best to practice the discipline of not getting distracted. As I move sketchbooks and notebooks, getting distracted is an easy place to find myself. It’s interesting but the task at hand just takes longer and causes tiredness of brain.

My studio already has two high stacked piles of drawings look back on, to refocus, to remember, to reignite, to move on from. It is also a framing studio at the moment, in preparation for Welsh Art Week next month.

However…I allowed myself a quick glimpse, one page, a random page, from a notebook circa 2002 - very hastily written by the looks of it

‘Painting is but another word for feeling’ , John Constable (1776-1837)

‘When pictures start to tell stories, boredom enters in’, Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

I’ve never been one for narrative paintings yet behind each painting is a story.