The last 12 or so months have not been easy. In September 2023 I lost my beloved dog Mavis to kidney disease. Barely a month later my (then) 98 year old mother fell over at my sister’s flat in Devon and broke her pelvis. Her bones have healed but her mind and body have not and she is now pretty much bed-bound and needs constant care. We have carers 4 times a day but that still leaves twenty one and a half hours where it’s down to me (and my sister most weekends). It has been stressful. In March this year I decided I really needed a dog in my life and along came Bertha from Battersea. She’s pretty scared most of the time and needs a lot of love and patience. To cope with all of this I’ve turned to oil paint. This is a medium that I haven’t really used since the 90s but somehow felt right for my state of mind. I moved from abstract to landscape and I’m still working on it – but here is a selection of work in progress.

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