More Paintings: each needing the final touches

The black one in the centre is called 'Living Alone' and it's a technical nightmare to photograph it, although I quite like the effect it has produced here, and might use the (mistaken) light effects in the final painting. Actually it's all black with some subtly coloured glazes giving the shapes which you can probably see; and there are white broken lines and black glazed lines reaching down onto the hill where there's a line of reflection. Tucked in the distant hills is a collection of white buildings.

Age Will Not Weary

It's always difficult to know which pieces of my work, if any, I should submit to the local annual Art Club exhibition. This painting is iconic for the locality, depicting the War Memorial and its beautiful surroundings in an abstract/ stylised way. The seagull shape has the words of the English poet, Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) signed in silver along its wing and it flies under a silver sky. There is rain/snow/mist in the air and distant hikers heading for the Memorial. Anyone who has walked along the coastal path by Stonehaven will understand the painting although it doesn't literally depict a particular scene.

"Age will not weary, nor the years condemn..."

The painting is unframed (because the picture goes right around the edges), it's thick with texture, uninhibited in brushstrokes and unconventional compared to the neat specimens all around. But it's unfettered art and I'm grateful to the art club for giving me the chance to show it to a wide audience.