Creative life has its cycles, the ebb and flow of reaching inwards and outwards. After completing a large project, I always need time to fill up the creative well – to do other things, and to be patient. Still, after all these years, during the inward-reaching times, I tend to experience a fleeting worry that the “creating” won’t come back and the well is dry forever. I should trust the process by now, really! Because when the time is right, the well just overflows. In fact, at the moment I’m experiencing this cycle like a dam been burst open from the force of water it cannot hold any longer. I just paint, paint, paint like I could never stop. I will need to remember this, when it’s time to recharge the creative batteries again. It’s just the opposite side of the same coin.

I will, eventually, post full images on this site. But for now, it’s all just shapes and colours for me – the details close-up even more interesting. Maybe there’s a new process indicated… I should paint large, then cut up into pieces as I tend to find the individual crops more interesting than the whole… (Jun09)