My next solo show, You Can't Take It With You,  opens on Wednesday 28th, with an opening party from 6.00pm on Friday 30th.which I hope to see a few faces at.

The title is an alternative t Everything Must Go, which I thought sounded a tad desperate. But I do need to sell off a few paintings as I don't want o be taking them to Cornwall with me when we move. Our flat is about to go on the market this week so this may be the last show I do in London for a while.

I'm pleased to say that my painting, Birth, School, Work, Death, will be in this years Brixton Summer Art Show. As it had a similar palette to The Map Is Not The Territory [which didn't get into the Townhouse Open] I feared it might suffer the same fate. The rejected picture is currently on show as part of the Not For Sale show on the streets of Camberwell though.

​The show is on from July 3rd -27th, so will overlap with my solo show at Woodfield Pavilion for a couple of weeks.

Yep, no updates in April, mainly because I've been doing more decorating than painting. Well, I say that, but  there was also the week spent at Boxpark with the Wildewoods show. I anticipate decorating to last until mid June, in between my Sprout and Woodfield shows. The Sprout show is only two weeks away and there's still prep to do for that. Luckily the daylight means I'm awake at 5.30!

A week from now Martyn Woods and I will be setting up shop at Boxpark, Shoreditch for out inaugral gallery pop-up. Initially showing just our own work it is hoped that we will continue to grow a roster of artists and pop-up in various places in and around London. You will find us at Unit 15 on Bethnal Green Road. We open the doors at 11:00am on Tuesday 4th April and there will be drinks to celebrate from 5:00pm on Wednesday 5th. We now have a website live and an Instagram account.

Over a month without an update! How did that happen. Probably because I have been painting and there have been lots of of domestic things to deal with: Electricians, refits and decorating plans.. My Boxpark pop-up with Martyn Woods is just over two weeks away and I have 15 paintings for that on the go and three more to start on. They are all loosely based around a grid derived from doors of a shipping container. Boxpark is called that after the nickname for shipping ports and is constructed out of repurposed shipping containers. So it seemed kind of fitting to use them as a theme. The one above is one of 10 6" cradled wood panels [50mm deep] that can be displayed stacked in a shipping container stylee or just hung alone in a more traditional way. I also have four 12" panels and two each of 16" and 20" sizes . I may well take some other work too, after we are open. The black and white chevrons are a nod to Boxpark's branding. Anyway, can't stop... There's a deadline looming and there's plenty of shop admin to do as well as the painting.