FACING THE DAY

OK, I had my 52nd birthday and thanks to all who sent me cards, e-cards, text and facebook messages. I love you all and appreciate the sentiments deeply. as for my art for life; am applying for a year long artist's residency so fingers crossed for that. Not putting paint to canvass yet but am sifting through ideas in sketch form and this is where most of the work takes place. Getting the right images, placing characters into good positions and with happy relationships with other personages in the same rectangle is half the battle. And so the work continues but slowly. My latest idea circles around the idea of motherhood which, as a man, I can only view from outside as the emotions involved and the bonds made between a mother and her offspring are quite alien to me. It will be interesting to see if I manage to achieve a sympathetic rendering of this unique and closed world. Watch this space !!