Spraygraphic

I found this over the week end
http://www.spraygraphic.com/ManageProfile.html
It looks very interesting and I think you (Penny) should have a look. In the meantime a pic from the new work I showed on the photo-frame last meeting.

Howard Hodgkin

Came across this wonderful exhibition of Howard Hodgkins prints in Ealing last week. I had no idea he had produced these fantastic prints and been so innovative with the techniques. I can strongly recommend a visit.
The biggest suprise was the size of some of them, often combining several pieces of paper to make pictures 60x40 inches. The clever way he had arrived at adding hand brush work at the end to transform their appearnce is masterful.
The Ealing gallery is a find as well, housed as it is in what may have been the orangry of a grand house it has been tastefully adapted to a fine exhibition space . Get a long an dhave a look.
The exhibition put together by the Barbican is touring so it may end up nearer us.

Anxiety

Lets start a conversation.
My own painting is more and more about the duality of our selves and its struggle to be controlled, allowing the good bits continue and questioning our judgment. Investigating the conversation that goes on in within us as we strive to know ourselves and adjust to some of its less attractive aspects.
These conversations are often an enquiry, or questioning of a given, or are outright rage to an insight that has been ragging for years. They can be observations of encounters and assignations that stick me as odd, often only a clue in the title is all that is need to set the viewers mind racing along similar tracks to question their own standing on a matter.

Starting now.
Educated at Cambridge, England, the art school that is (at last one myth dispelled) and had worked for 27 years in advertising and design from a humble visualiser to creative director. Became an illustrator in the 80's and never stopped drawing, shame I never learnt to spell. Have been painting and taking photographs along side the illustration and exhibit every other year. Books of my painting and photography can be found on Blurb.com.and you can see my painting portfolio at www.169.org.uk.
Have been the force behind a group of artists called Parkbench which is based in Gloucestershire with the intention to publishes hand finished prints of their work over the internet and broaden the awarness of such painters.