New Sites in Sight......

The Way of Wisdom.

  I have been REALLY busy lately getting my two new websites up and running....   They still have a lot more to go into them but at least they are off the ground now and I can 'play' with them. The first one is The Wisestones of Malta and it shows all (or it will do, anyway) the work I have done in the prehistoric Temples of Malta.They have fascinated me ever since I first came to live in Malta, and I have had several exhibitions on the subject. I find them endlessly inspiring - for me, they echo with the memories of ancient wisdom. They date back to a time before the pyramids, when a matriarchal society lived in peace with the environment and each other. No weaponry was found among the ruins, and also very little evidence of habitation, so the mystery remains; why is tiny Malta littered with so many Temples? Painting always helps me to slip into an altered state, and I think that connection channels into the work I do there.

 I have been feeling the need to reconnect with the subject in a new way for some time now, adding new experiences and inspirations.....  
  

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charcoal on velour, 40 x 30 cms

...... and in the meantime, a bit of fun! I find that when I am working on things like landscapes (which I have been doing for a while now in preparation for my exhibition in May) I have to stop myself from getting too 'picky'. A good antidote is to stop and do something completely different, and as I have many, many sketches from live models in the studio, I have been working them up in as loose a fashion as possible. 
    Getting away from the full-colour landscapes, I have worked in monochrome - ink, charcoal, paint...  and then I thought that if I could do fifty it would make a great collection!
   So the new website
Fifty Shades of Grey Nudes is charting my progress - I have just put the 20th painting on there!

   Check them out and let me know what you think!!

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