Original artwork description:

This work is part of an early 2020 painting project in which I set out to produce a new body of work without having any preconceived ideas of what the work would eventually look like. The idea being that by getting into the studio and just putting brush to primed surfaces, new forms, themes and ideas would reveal themselves. And I've not been disappointed with the results. I have also found this to be a good time for experimenting with different painterly techniques. As such you'll notice that some of the works in this series look very different from one another.

Almost all of the paintings in this series are painted directly to the painting's surface with brush and oil paint, rather than being pencilled in beforehand. I really like the immediacy of this approach. You can often end up with a piece that has a vibrancy that you might not have got if you were being more considered and calculated.

These oil paintings are mostly painted on small, wall mountable, plywood or chipboard plaques (recycled form pieces of Victoria and Albert Museum packing crates), or on old book covers and recycled pieces of primed mount board (recycled from the V&A museum's Paper Conservation Department and from their Picture Framing Dept.).

This one is painted on primed mount board. The reds in the main photograph may appear slightly more vibrant than they truely are (and as seen in the other photos) as this photo was taken when the paint was still wet.

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