life
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Happy Birthday
For a Friend This one started out as a card. A stopgap, really. Something simple to tuck into an envelope so I wouldn’t turn up empty-handed. I kept it deliberately pared back: two colours, plenty of space, very little detail. A branch, a suggestion of grasses, a sky that doesn’t try too hard to explain…
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Granulation adoration
Indigo got its chance, and this time it behaved impeccably. I don’t like this one. I love it. Which feels slightly dangerous to admit, given how easily that feeling can turn on me, but I’m standing by it. This was a leap *** a double-page leap *** and if it hadn’t worked, I would have…
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Moon Storm
This one has a title that promises more confidence than I actually feel about it. Everyone else seems to like it. They talk about the drama, the movement, the moon hanging there like it knows what it’s doing. I nod along, smile politely, and try not to immediately point out the steps. The shadow. The…
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Retail therapy
Another recent page, and another small relief: I don’t hate it. The perspective is still doing its own thing, slightly unbothered by reality, but it’s no longer actively fighting me. The buildings mostly agree with each other. The windows line up well enough. Nothing feels like it’s about to slide sideways off the page, which,…
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G&T
Lemon Another miniature, but this time, I behaved myself. I remember approaching this one more slowly than usual, which already made it feel different. No rushing to see what it might become, no piling decisions on top of still-wet paint. I let each layer sit. I waited. And, somewhat miraculously, nothing fell apart in the…
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Reflections
This is one of those paintings that lives firmly in the grey area. I didn’t hate it, which, in itself, felt like progress, but I didn’t love it either. It exists in that uncomfortable middle ground where nothing is disastrously wrong, yet nothing quite sings. The idea was there. Snowy peaks, soft light, a sense…
Brook & Bramble Art 