New Life, New Painting

I am starting a new chapter in my life after 30 years of teaching.

These paintings have been on a back burner for a while and so I have spent some time dedicated to completing them. I feel that I am learning painting from scratch again and it has been a fulfilling experience for me.
Even so, it's probably a transitional phase while I complete unfinished business, try new things and see where explorations take me.
I am not sure where I want to be yet, but I am enjoying getting there.

 Slider, Oil on canvas

Cathedral Doorway, Acrylic on canvas

Latch, Oil on Canvas

Fragmentation, Acrylic on paper

 Fragmentation(detail)

Entry, Acrylic on paper collage

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Entry, (detail)

These images rely heavily on texture, layering up, paint over collage and observation of things seen. They are linked by their interest in doorways, entry, liminal spaces, forgotten and abandoned things and places.

I have enjoyed working onto prepared textures and collage and working with the accidental as much as the created marks.

Old railway carriage, Rothbury

This is one of a series of drawings that I have been working on for some time. I have used oil pastels mainly to build up a textured surface.

The railway carriage is on a hillside in Rothbury along a favourite pathway, it has been used for a shelter for sheep and it has been gradually decomposing over time.

I'd better get the drawings done quickly as one day there won't be anything left of it.