Ode to Light | An Exhibition

Ode to Light opened in Walthamstow, London on Friday 8th November and I frantically sent 8 pristinely framed paintings to Artsnug, arriving just in the nick of time. The show didn’t feel particularly good to me as it’s a gallery I have worked with for a long time and I feel pressured to give them ‘old’ work. Lovely gallery, awful name. I don’t know how they feel about my more experimental work but if not, maybe it’s time to move on. I love showing work so I don’t really mind for now, I don’t do well in silence and without a conversation with the world.

I have four shows next year including the MA show in June and I think they will all be opportunities to show newer thinking. This one felt like the last of my pre-MA type of work and I am pleased to be moving on. I love the nocturnes and I think the Dark Skies work will continue but there was a palpable frustration and tightness in the work that I will not miss. I am proud that I am making progress, albeit in the knowledge that there is a long way to go yet.