Back to the past

Well January was really intended to be a holiday away from printing or any form of art to recharge the mind and get the brain working again and it did make a change to begin with. Although listening to howling winds, watching grey skies and rain streaming down your windows isn’t quite what makes a break. I couldn’t even get into the garden because of the weather and when I finally did I managed to crock my back and then the break from work became enforced, like it or not. Getting old is not for the faint hearted that’s for sure. So having tidied up and re-organised my little studio it was time to get back to work. We’d been informed that our eldest grandson ‘wanted a painting based on the images of the North East in Grandad’s sketch books’, images that come from the period 1963 to 1967 when I was at Art School. Would my memory still function going back that far? I can’t show you that image yet because it will give the game away before the birthday and no spoilers are to be allowed. This is a subsequent painting and number two in the series and now I’m interested in doing some more before I go back to printing. I’ll post the first nearer to the 8th of March and now it’s time to start the third.