The world keeps turning

The world just keeps on turning – I notice that abstract painting seems to be coming to the fore again – albeit with the flavour of cool PM irony and without the messianic stridency of the abstractionists of the last century.

Don’t throw your old clothes away – they will eventually come into fashion again – so here I am – looking at abstract paintings painted in the last year – and very good as well – even if some of them are a bit art-and-culture incestuous (in that post-modern way).

Some painters whose work I constantly return to – really good painters in my view:

Peter Doig

Daniel Hesidence

Ruth Root

Ken Currie

Paul Klee

Max Ernst

I am exploring ways of striking patterns against referential images

- count these as studies for paintings

Kurt

Jimi 1

Marilyn 1

Janice

Elvis

Thats all for now – more later.