Seasons: a year-long suite of paintings: 1 Summer
The Seasons suite is a year-long project consisting of a painting for each season of the year. It began in the summer of 2025-26 and will conclude with the end of spring 2026. Each painting is a panel or canvas that spends three months in an outdoor studio: The Summer Painting on site, 15th December 2025 Each day (when present) I visit the current painting and add something to it. The aims of the projects are several including: To observe the effects of weather and other events on the paintings To respond to changes made by weather, light, other creatures and myself To utilise materials already in my possession with the aim of both not buying more materials, and using up items that have lingered unused in my collection To persist with adding marks even to the (usually temporary) detriment of the visual attractiveness of the paintings - although of course there is always an element of choice in what I do To persist with each painting for each full season and thus the whole ye...
