"From time to time I have put relevent snippits from my sketchbooks on my blog, I have over time come to the realisation that this has been a missed opportunity for me in terms of the self-isolation residency. Not all artists work in the same way, but for me my sketchbooks are far more that 'places to hold sketchs', they are a thinking place, a personal place that 'allows' anything I may concider in terms of my practice; hence the name for this new' occasional series of posts, 'thinking-allowed'."

The evolution of this piece from several influences: the 'sublime' paintings of Casper David Friedrich, Arnold Böcklin's 'Isle of the Dead' paintings and also Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Família Cathedral in Barcelona, have finally enabled me to complete it with the right title. As I mentioned previously I am really intrigued as to whether Gaudi was influenced by Böcklin's paintings, or even just by the idea of 'cemetary islands' like  Montenegrin island of Saint George, which was probably the model for Böcklin's paintings, as was the English Cemetery in Florence, Italy.