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Check out what I’ve been working on lately….

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I’ve had this painting sitting around half finished for a long time. I couldn’t decide on the background colour or whether the shapes should continue across the surface. But recently I looked at it again and with a flash of inspiration it became red and finished!

I’m done quite alot of work in the last few years using these shapes. I see buildings and laneways when I paint them – an aerial layout of a city. Currently these are medieval city layouts – very ad hoc in their arrangement, but I would like to move on to representations of homogenous streets in the suburban tracts surrounding cities. Particularly cul-de-sacs and repetition of house types. And of course multiple swimming pools sprinkled throughout.