ARTISTS TALKING

# 46 [29 August 2008]

not long been back from France...working in watercolour with narrative upon narrative upon narrative.

The garden we're building is coming to completion and the client coincidentally is a University French tutor. Buddhism is big in her daily life and I've designed a garden in sympathy with this calming set of beliefs. All on a budget so there have been compromises...she's happy.

# 45 [5 August 2008]

pissing down...excellent. I'm shattered...we took four tons out of a garden then put four tons in. All the form-work is constructed for the curved path and now it's pissing down...I'm happy...my studio beckons...but when it stops raining we must carry on...pray for rain!

# 44 [2 August 2008]

August...how long does a painting take? I know how long a piece of string is because I have a tape measure...but a painting is measured in the mind.

I make a mark and it defines a moment, I make another mark and it defines the space between these moments. I'm in no hurry to make my next mark, I'm simply enjoying the incomplete, undefined and unfolding image.

It's a beautiful way of working...a contemplative approach where every mark, every moment...matters...

# 43 [26 July 2008]

France was hot hot hot...much painting done...not

Anyway, I was busy, busybusybusy cutting curved paths through the meadow, pruning the cherry trees and moving the wood pile...

Emily's silent retreat with the L'Arche community north of Paris has been inspiring. Working with the defence industry is not particularly conducive with her creative potential, so fundamental changes will be made to both our lives... 

# 42 [16 July 2008]

...at last my website text has been updated, but there are so many images I'd like to add...all in good time...

http://www.eartharchitecture.co.uk/artist.html

# 41 [13 July 2008]

Saatchi has put my blog on it's front page...mmmnice...

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/drupal/?q=node/29814

# 40 [12 July 2008]

5ive images...

# 39 [7 July 2008]

Day 1 It's been three days of sleepless nights and calm consideration to arrive at these first marks... 

An appropriate day to begin...our 7th wedding anniversary.

Blog No 36 2 June 2008...just re-edited

# 38 [3 July 2008]

BIG day today...Emily is on HMS Ark Royal helping to......and I've decided to begin a series of watercolours related to emotion.

They will be contemporary calligraphic mark-making using watercolour and oil pastel. Digital images will be taken to record the creative process at each relevant stage and posted on this blog as an unique record. This is something I've wanted to do for a while and now with so much emotion flying around there'll be absolutely no *ucking about... 

# 37 [30 June 2008]

...after 3 weeks in France...back to the harsh reality of life. Immediately summoned to Southampton cardiac high dependency unit where my father in law, an RSC actor has had a significant bleed in his brain (a stroke) after a successful triple by pass operation.

We have been told to 'prepare ourselves'.

Life is cruel...and beautiful too...