Seeing the forecast a week ahead of Urban Art Brixton I thought I'd create something equally as hot so leading up to the event I painted five layers of acrylic, from lemon yellow up to that fluorescent red at the top, framed it up and made it the centrepiece of my pitch. It certainly turned heads, all weekend, but I thought I was going to be taking it home with me. Then, almost at the end of day day 2 it was bought. For someone who has been focusing on texture and neutral tones of late it was a very bright surprise. One I'm keen to try some more of, so as soon as the Dante's Car Park series is done [I'm a third of the way through that] I will return to this, along with matt and gloss contrasts I think.

Not that I expected to win. It was an honour to make the 36 strong shortlist out of 723 entries from around the world and the quality of the shortlisted work was very high. It was a great evening too. Congratulations to the overall winner, Harumi Tanaka, one of the few artist I was already following on Instagram. I'm looking forward to next years already.

Some of the more observant among you may have noticed that I have subtly been streamlining this site to separate my prints from the more serious aspect of painting and who knows maybe more three dimensional work. So, all of my photography and prints are now available through Etsy and will be drop-shipped directly from The Printspace. I am working on a catalogue, a link to which is at the bottom of the home page. I just need to make live links to the individual works on Etsy now.

The Pavilion People show at Woodfield Pavilion ends on July 2nd but that isn't the end of my activities for next month. I shall be featured in all of the following events in July.

​Brixton Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition - The Department Store, Brixton, July 1st - 3rd
Brixton Bugle Summer Art Show - Brixton Tate Library July 4th - 26th
Townhouse Open 2022, Spitalfields, London, July 13th - September 4th
​Urban Art Brixton 2022, Josephine Avenue SW2 -  July 16th/17th

I'm looking forward to the Brixton Art Prize awards ceremony on June 30th, the Pavilion People closing party on July 1st, especially as my painting sold last week. Also, the artists drinks at the Townhouse and I hope there will be some sort of celebration at the Tate Library as well. I'm sure we can turn my Urban Art fair pitch into some sort of street party again this year too.

I'm in two minds whether to sell these at the Urban Art Fair in Brixton next month or wait until I can find somewhere to exhibit them. I think there is still some tinkering to be done, even after 8 months. I'm not convinced about the name either and they should all have individual names. I've noticed that my minimal naming and or numbering of works isn't very illuminating! If I can find somewhere to show them, I will.