Met with a painter friend (Ian Hinley) last night and we had a great chat about all sorts of aspects of making work. Our approaches are very different, his approach to the problem of painting is both intellectual and technical and importantly he has the hand of freedom so the work can feel loose and […]

This short video interviewing Harold Cohen, particularly the first minute, really resonated and was one of those moments, when a painter says something that expresses an aspect of what you believe too. I was reading Martin Gayford’s How Painting Happens (and why it matters) book and Harold Cohen is in it and tbh the book […]

Thinking this morning about a portrait I’m doing and how I’ve been really questioning “is it any good?”, which is the wrong question but seems so easy to ask and obsess about. My friend Jayne used a phrase last night about having had ‘time on the mat’, experiential knowledge of painting and drawing, as her […]

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