May Day, Pedra Branca

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May Day, Pedra Branca: children, dogs, kites, oil on card, 12 x 16 cm   - available

It seems to me that these little towns with their dirt tracks an dogs are as pleasant a place for a child to grow up as any. Certainly life seems inordinately more interesting in them than in Britain's sterile suburbs.

The children love to fly kites: the telegraph wires are festooned with ribbons from their tails.

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Palhoça; New York

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The back of Palhoça, oil on card, 11.5 x 14 cm unavailable

Pleasing semi-suburban landscape behind Palhoça, which is rapidly merging into greater Florianopolis. Thisis slightly bigger than ,my usual size.

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I have decided to go to New York in October. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am interested in contacting galleries or dealers who might find my work interesting. I am also looking for affordable accommodation for about 20 days: perhaps a sub-let or the use of a room. 

It is a long time since I was last in New York and my memories of it are surely utterly distorted by films and photos. But I fancy it will be good for painting and at very least the Autumn colours will make a change.

 

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Near Aguas Mornas

 Farmstead near Aguas Mornas, oil on card, 16 x 17 cm 

Red rock, oil on card, 11 x 14.5 cm 

 

 

Brilliant sunshine: two painted after a week of artistic abstinence.

 

I must think of an October trip.

The bookshelf

The bookshelf, oil on card, 18 x 12.5 cm

It`s been a great pleasure working with brighter colours and exploring patterns, leaving the perceptual painting tradition for a little while.

Curtains

Curtains, oil on card, 12.5 x 14 cm

It`s great to be working with high fast colour. I love laying out the colours and mixing them just seeing what happens when they meet.

Do we really need an obvious subject for a painting to be enjoyable?

Vase of flowers, the green room, Miro.

Vase of flowers, the green room, oil on card, 12 x 15 cm unavailable

More work about my apartment. I`m finding great delight in brighter colours these days, really pushing them out, trying to keep them bright and sharp.

 There are fantastic Miros that feature an expanse of blue punctuated by a dot or dash of red,(such as Blue III, 1961)paintings that seem to be all about timing, and are so very musical and full of humour, and which I wish I could easily visit for inspiration.