WARSAW PAINTINGS

Two months now into the Warsaw Paintings and perhaps as they stand they’re beginning to pull together - but it’s early days and I’m really still not convinced… Still, although there’s some good stuff going on, I’m still just not sure they’re heading in the right direction..? Jesus, the amount of painting, rejecting, reworking etc, just to get to this stage, and I’m still not ready to run riot – Bloody hell, you’d think after twenty odd years of painting it would get easier, but I wouldn't want to lie!

As you can see, I’ve been working in monotone and for now, during the working process anyway, black and white seems to be the new colour for me – perhaps even suits the landscape of this weird and wonderful city … The intention is to add subtle glazes of colour when the structure of the paintings are complete but I’ve only tried this out on a tiny painting so far, and since it f*cked the whole essence of the bloody thing up, am not quite convinced about doing this to the others just yet – that is if they, and the rest to follow, survive in this form at all.

All in all, very frustrating at the moment, but all very much part of the journey as they say!