New work

Starting work on a new painting. The idea has been hovering around since my visit to London back in July. The sketch above a sort of first impression, but the final work, I hope, I envisage, will not look anything like this. I want to simplify- to find an essence.

After a fantastic day, first in Tate Modern and then Tate Britain I walked East along The Embankment (North Side) between five and six in the afternoon. It was a pleasant Summer's day, sunny with a few cotton wool clouds and a breeze. The foliage on the majestically mature trees of the Capital, overhanging the river wall in places, creating a protective tunnel from the race home only yards away across the lawns on my left.

Before I reached The Houses of Parliament I walked through a little park with a monument to some notable person of the past. It is this snippet of time that I want to capture in a painting.

The white, upright statue; solid and enduring. The circular movement of the summer breeze and the pigeons. The formal planting of the colourful flowerbeds, and fashionable use of semi-tropical plants.

Normally I need a physical starting point for a painting. Something that I can draw and then explore. This will be a challenge for me because it is abstract from the very start. Nothing about this is tangible. It is about a moment in time. The feelings that occurred during that time frame, colours, sounds, spacial movement.