I love working in ink, it has freedom

As I continue to sift through the sketch books, piles of ideas, the need to paint is shouting inside…….images are forming…..ready to dance into life…….yet the time to allow them out is squeezed between the need to deep clean and covid 19 strip the two chalets ready for the first guests back. This is how the the roof stays over my head….the paintings submerged.

Painting and providing food is an impossible balance….painting gets swamped by need.

My dreams last night were shouting this at me…pushing ideas to the surface to encourage me to act……each time I picked up my smooth cool ink brush, dipped it into the deep  rich ink, just before it touch the surface of the paper….the phone rang, another job interview…..The jobs from my passed merged, and twisted……until a visitor with striking eyes asks me to to show them how to use my brush…….laughing together we paint the inky image of Mumbles…..this image….one I did a while ago….

It is time to persist with the idea of painting…..dogged belief….. merging the things, the coaching, the painting, the chalets…….As the covid restrictions ease… visitors will be encouraged to share in the joy of this stunning Gower landscape….. developing their painting skills with me…..in the fresh outdoors…..