Berlin Shoe Shop

A new painting is starting.  2 women met  again after 10 years in a Berlin shoe shop, and embraced so warmly..

another version of 'The luck of Ginger Coffey'

I am working on this old image, because I like the commonplace of the location, and the isolation of the figure.

ARNOLFINI MARRIAGE 107cms x 87cms oil on canvas

painted today....

I have been working on 'The Arnolfini Marriage'

I think I am nearly there now, practising shapes and colours, and thinking of Delacroix's Journal.  The 2 figures are now closer, and therefore more friendly.

I am very impressed by Wilhelm Sasnal at the Whitechapel Gallery

I have been making a series of small studies of paintings I may well make a lot larger, simplifying the areas and the brushstrokes. Working this way, away from the final canvas, will, I hope hope help me to make more powerful images.

and now the final one of these, palimpsest

I know that this has been going down a cul de sac, but its over, and I am pleased with the results:  an area that I probably shan't visit again.

PALIMPSEST from the Woodrat series

Palimpsest: A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing: something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.  On the left, 'Woodrat Submerged', on the right 'The Birth of Woodrat'

105cms x 87cms mixed media and resin.

I overlaid shapes and the architectural colours of the Woodrat, effacing, obscuring the painting underneath.  They now seem to be saying the right things about the machine

See www.woodrat.com