These are small oil painted veneered boards exploring differing colour explorations for larger figurative pictures in progress. They follow reading ‘Interaction of Colour’ by Josef Albers and visits to Tate Modern to see the ‘Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life’ exhibition. Mondrian’s famous abstractions, look simple but are not. There is much thought into the placing of the canvas into a framing board, the treatment of the edge returns, and of course the physical geometric proportions of everything he is working with – lines and blocks of colour.

Here the boards explore and investigate the problems of:

• the colour green and how it appears in nature
• skin tone
• night time in a Málaga bar

Oil on canvas – 20 x 25cm

Heebee – ink washes and the use of a newly purchased fine brush

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Since last autumn I have been busy with increased working hours at NUA where I teach Architecture. The work and students are inspiring but have sucked away a lot of my creative energy from continuing to make art. However, I did attend another excellent course at the Royal Drawing School and found another evening life drawing class at Shine in Wood Green, London.

All life drawing classes have now closed. Teaching at NUA is now only online. It should mean there is more time to get back to making art, hence the post below on the postcards, which surprisingly have been keeping me occupied.

I will start to regularly post here. Please see our contribution to the neighbourly rainbows of South Tottenham, London!