When you live in a big city you spend a lot of time looking down or surrounded by sky-blocking buildings…

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Today at the studio, well the weekend just gone, new paintings, Margate skylines, acrylic on canvas, 20cm x 20cm,

Skylines, a series of paintings that may evolve, a series of paintings that started somewhere in the last century, took a break for a year or two, a series that has now been  resumed. That point where sky meets sea, or when sky meets roof top. The sky, the light, the point where sea meets sky, I’ve been driving people mad talking about it all year and then I saw an old painting of mine hanging on a wall ans then went and dug another one out of an old portfolio. which then resulted in four of five new paintings that I imagine will find their way to Dreamland for the Margate leg of the 2019 Art Car Boot Fair adventure on Saturday September 28th (next Saturday when I wrote this). Places like Margate or Folkestone or indeed my childhood homelands of Anglesey (and those Trearddur Bay paintings from the last century) have always been about the sky and where the sky meets the sea or maybe now, maybe about the roof tops. I have been looking back at my old paintings from Anglesey recently, thinking I maybe need to get out of London. I did look up Mrs Booth but she doesn’t appear to be renting out rooms any more. When you live in a big city you spend a lot of time looking down or surrounded by sky-blocking buildings, when you see a big sky you stand and look for just a little longer…