I often feel quite optimistic and creatively energised on New Year’s Day - providing I’m not suffering too much from the night before of course. It was a pretty quiet one this year. In fact, I was painting at midnight and put down my brush to toast the New Year, which must mean I’m either very dedicated or a complete sad-act. Must remember to socialise next year.
Anyway, with a pretty clear head, I took the camera for a walk around my local area today and, true to form, came back with some great visual material, including several possible starting points for future paintings. In the pleasingly named Frog Island quarter of Leicester I found these lovely trashed billboard hoardings. It’s far too early to tell where these images might lead but the tattered layers of colour, printer's dot patterns and text fragments feel like a real gift. There’s not much else to say at this stage so I’ll just put a few images up as a marker - and for the sheer pleasure of looking at them…
Happy New Year
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