Watercolour in progress
I‘m having a ” never again” moment at the moment. I’m sure that you’ve had them too, for one reason or another you wake up and think, I’ll never EVER do that again as long as I live and you make all kinds of promises to all kinds of people and Gods, that if only…
One of the Falkland Island series ...
Well, a few years ago I was invited to The Falkland Islands where I was given a commission by a Marine Company to produce fifteen board room paintings. I was really pleased and I did many drawings, took hundreds of photos and sailed almost four thousand miles around the Islands before coming back to my studio in the warmth of France to decide which images to put onto canvass. Several months later as I got towards the end of the commission I thought that if I ever had to paint another wave or ripple, or even see one that it would be too soon. I thought that I would ” never again “ do a series of so many of the same sort of paintings.
How the years make us forget !
