2023 Got Off to a Rocky Start

2023’s art began with weeks of overthinking and a mess of a false start, which came grinding to a halt when I abandoned a painting for the first time in three years. This ever happen to you?

It’s kind of like the way life’s been until now.

It took a weekend of breathing deep and slow - and going out to enjoy other people's art - to get reinspired.

Fired up with new ideas and a fresher outlook I restarted from scratch with a tighter composition, flipping 'The Witch' onto its short side and painting it over in chromatic blacks.

The good news is that the last time I abandoned a painting I restarted it. A little over a year later it became Rose Room. No guarantee this new painting is going to work out and be forewarned - it's possibly the strangest work I've ever done - but I'm liking it better each day.

Kind of like the way life is - starting now.