“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. “

Anais Nin

A simple blog update. It’s always interesting working on an unfamiliar subject. Totally reliant on photo/video archives and Googled information to capture a moment that’s not been experienced!

It certainly looks like a beautiful, majestic part of the world. Rocky outcrops and plains of scrub. Lots of stones with spiritual significance across the hills or petrified witches if the tales are to be believed (Mitchell’s Fold). So the pictures are all packed and on their way to adorn the walls of the holiday let. I hope that they are enjoyed by the guests.

[Blog update 2011: Images removed from this post. sadly never got paid for these pictures either in money or in kindness. In fact the daughter of the owners of the guest house turned out to be a very unusual character. She had no concept of gift versus business transactions. I hope that she has learnt along the way and is treating others better now.]

Inspiration was closer to home, but yet so far away last weekend. An exciting Grand Prix at Hungary reminded me of my trip in 2007. Digging out the pictures and being further inspired by the heat-haze views of this year’s cars I will be adding a couple of large acrylics on canvas to the Motorsport collection in August.

Will also be finishing works on the Torro Rosso pit crews from 2007 Indianapolis which went on hold as I could not work at an easel for a while. So watch this space to see the developments.