Madness


 I've been working really hard on these small 3 x 5 panels.  The idea is to hang them in grids for my show in September with jeweler Megan Clark.  There's not a lot of space on these panels so I've had to simplify my ideas which has been a good exercise for me.  I keep returning to the same themes in this series of small work: developing sketch portraits of friends and strangers, using rice paper to draw them with ink pen and adding in collage elements like fabric or pages from War and Peace.  Also animal portraits too of course.  It's been fun working on 20 paintings at once!