Taking shape is a continuation from the work I was doing earlier. Again they will become the image maps which we create in our minds, to be stored away for future referencing. Throughout life I have said to my children that I experience life a little differently from anyone else. Not just by the fact that we are unique in ourselves, a one of a kind, but also, I see my life as a continuum of sequencing images.
I see pictures (not ghosts), I think in pictures, it’s something I have always done. The number of images I have stored in my memory files must be in the zillions. I daresay this skill must be at the expense of something else…
In No.6 I allowed pooling to occur to add another dimension to the painting, I do enjoy watching how different colours meet together, react and form a new element with just the physics of movement acting on them at a molecular level.
As time goes by I have experimented with how the ink touches the paper, the time interval between each element varies as does the strength of application of the brush.
I painted these in the very early hours of the night, I think it was between 3 and 4 am in the morning. No distractions just a little music………………
lalalalalalalal, de lala la, well that’s enough of that ridiculous attempt at singing along to the music…Ah! Yes, the lack of skill which I have exchanged for seeing my life in pictures!!







Wonderful variations on a theme – like a Bach fugue. The circle appears often in your work – symbolic of you perhaps? Did your children understand what you told them or did they say, “Dad, you are soooo weird”? Great work Gregory…
I appreciate your kind comment John, as for my children, they accept me as “normal”… I think!