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This is probably the smallest canvas I’ve ever painted, and I can say for certain that I’ll never paint anything this size again! Water-soluble oil paints on a 4×6″ canvas. The image, which is wholly in my head, probably originates from looking back at Brighton beach from the end of the pier. I am in experimental mode just now, driven by using up all my various canvases, no matter their size,…

Finished today and off to the printer for a proof copy. It will be A4, black throughout, AR enabled, wire-bound to lie flat, and in landscape orientation. The electronic version has video content that is set to autoplay but that can be reset by the reader. I will be adding more artwork over the next few weeks, if the software permits, and assuming the proof copy is of satisfactory quality. If it…

Or maybe Storm. Instagram may have a view. As always, this draws from rather than reproduces one of the many photos I’ve taken of systems like this approaching the village. I prefer to think of it as making a painting about something, not of it. This gives me licence to deal with colours differently and here, as the painting progressed, I’ve found myself bringing out the energy of the storm in…