Upside down painting, still working on this painting. Water soluble oil on canvas with a bit of beeswax and some other medium.

It’s upside because I was working on it this way up and I’m leaving it this way while it dries, for a while anyway.

More layers and textures, the pool of water, the burnt tree, muddy tracks.

The pool of water, a portal to another realm, soft reflections.

Wanderings across the Heath where linear time collapses. Fragments of the distant past scattered across the surface of churned earth. Portals, deep time, calls to me.

World war 1 tank in Reims. Still remaining in the 1930s. Destroyed completely during WW2.

Burnt gorse bush with graphite and gorse charcoal. I picked up a bit of the gorse charcoal that was lying on the ground. It gives a soft black against a silvery grey of the graphite.

The Sentinel, the one who watches.

Cyanotype layers of time. Approx 8 minutes from sun to paper.

Still working on this painting. It made it to stage 2 of the John Moores Painting Prize but not through to the final stage so now I can continue with the layering of textures and time.

I am reminded of the poem by the great Wilfred Owen ‘Soldiers Dream’ where he imagines Jesus causing a ‘permanent stoppage’. All the guns, all the weapons, stop functioning.

Multi layered with ink base and water soluble oil. 40 x 40 cm. Work in progress.