Sounds a bit corny but this is the coal face for me now. Polarities are where the drama lies: death/rebirth, transient/perminent.Patterns: crystaline, leaves, rust, textiles, materials, reflections, patterns of light.and how to get them- repeated marks, the twisting of my body or the holding of tension and music could help.

Cars in a wood: the elements

Leaves: wet decay, carpet/ random, smell of mould.  Decay means life.
Metal: sharp, jagged, uncertain, rust/solidity/smell of oil/ the metal core of the earth. We are the stuff that stars are made of.
Paint: peeling, temporary surface
Rubber: lasting, inflatable
Trees: The rhythm of the wood, the cycle of blanketing with falling timber and leaves and beetles, the sound of broken wood under foot.
The Earth: The uncertainty, the pit, the smell

Icon: The Car-  needs recognition/ personal link/ The ultimate fragility and can be recognised, just as it sinks back into the earth from whence it came and from where we come from.  And the poingnacy of the links that still be imagined.  The Temeraire would have had so much human drama caught up in its woodwork.

A morris 1000 in the woods.

This was later adjusted slightly to avoid the "eyes" look

This was an Austin Healey 3000 in a wood. This is a developing image in oil on canvas

Serendipidy on a walk

Wonderful walk on the Sussex Border path with Mark. We came across this. There will be more of these I am sure.

First Seawhite session of 2011

Drawing with oil paint on A1 cartridge paper. Initial marks with raw umber, partial obliteration, restatement in cobalt and titanium white. The initial mark having one margin blurred. Then further partial obliteration.
The restatement avoids the original lines. There should be a morris 1000 there somewhere.