As I spend more and more time experimenting with paint as a medium for expression, I am alternatively delighted and frustrated by it. At the moment my main emotion is delight, the new works, which ironically hark back to many of my older works, are capturing the essence of my concepts and I'm managing to find a wonderful space for them to inhabit somewhere between reality and the abstraction of it. I leave these pieces entirely open to the observer’s interpretation: are these traditional landscapes, expressions of sky, sea, space or something internal? You decide. I don’t even want the titles to give too much away, the titles are expressions of my own feelings about the paintings; they are therefore emotive rather than being descriptive.

The new painting, 'Where they kiss', took a sudden leap forward in the last 24 hours. Previously I thought that it was very close to completion but when I returned to it I realised two things; one, that it was far from finished but also two, that I knew exactly what I needed to do with it. As I mentioned previously in many ways this is a return to my previous style of painting and I slipped back into it with great relish.

I do intend to examine this painting in much greater detail in the next week or so and I will publish those thoughts as things progress. I also intent to re-photograph it as I have found it very difficult to transmit its subtleties photographically, hence the details below.