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Wow!!, it's 2009 and I have not updated anything on this site since about Nov 2007. I guess last year was full of new experiences and a time of change. I also think I have become a little more selective about what I wish to show (that mixed in with possibly a little laziness). I will put up some more from 2008 over the coming few weeks so keep posted. I have a lot of messages and deviations to get through in the mean time.

Been a while yet again since I've updated this page, been caught up in the hum of study for our last exam for the year. Now thats over a new sense of freedom and relief. I think I should start putting some work up here shortly. I still have two more paintings to complete before the year is over and I can start celebrating. One being an autobiographical and a landscape. The autobiographical is proving difficult and may become an abstraction yet. I feel the easiest way might be through a Self-Portrait, but I'm sick of them for now.

'How can one fail to admire a lightning sketch in which the artist has recorded the memory of an emotion felt, of an action seen or comprehended;a sketch whose expressive impact has been rendered with absolute sincerity, without attenuation, exaggeration or reserve; a sketch in which sensation is entire and the notation of effect is valid and complete as in a picture? The artist has succeeded –almost effortlessly– in expressing his thoughts. A rough suggestion has conveyed the spirit of the work, and imprecision, in its flexibility, enables the beholder's imagination to make additions, thus completing what the artist has been search