East Mersea

The weather has been very varied from monsoon rain to total sun block. Making painting outside challenging.
I'm switching from Hodgkin like marks to Turner backgrounds, all in the name of experimentation but really just to get a feel for this much paint on a painting; something I'm not known for.
The experience of just having the painting to think about, and where to have my next fish meal is very liberating and for once doesn't make me feel selfish.
Translating this work and discoveries in the studio could be a difficult process. As I have found in the past that the memory of 'where' lingers for too long to release me to real abstraction.
Gulls and their antics are a great distraction and I have taken to charactertures of one that was mobbing the guests at a restaurant on the shore. I've felt like mobbing the crows and magpies in the morning myself as they start establishing their clan and territory at 3.30. This all takes place about 20ft from my tent.
Still I get up early and pack two days into one.