This is part of a painting I am currently working on, it is Barnard Castle from Startforth Do you ever feel like you go round and round over the same ground? If you do, I can identify with that feeling. Toward the end of 2023 I decided to wind my painting down. There were other calls on my time and attention and painting was not happening on anything like a regular basis. I was working from a work room in the garden which needed wires running out to it every time I went in and which was not heated when I was not there. Oil paints do not like cold, so everything was taking longer to dry and getting any routine built up was really difficult. I September 2023 a new granddaughter was born and by January or February of 2024 I started looking after her three days a week. Around the same time, mum asked if it would be possible to move in together, and we started looking for a suitable house. I had no idea how time consuming looking for a house was, what with viewing houses and al...
