The blank sheet of watercolour paper is sometimes daunting. Or sometimes you are lost in the quagmire of self-doubt. Or whether there’s any point in painting another painting…

Mission: raise two birdlings ‘Another Hard Days Night’  | 2017 | 6×6”

Mission: create with seasonal colours. ’Orange and Black’ | 2018  | 8×8”

Mission: prove the impossible. ‘Red cedar’ | 2017 | 9×12”  

Mission: decide whether an estuary can be called a beach.

Mission: Create a visual likeness of the movement of the wind blowing the beach grass.

Mission: find a place for a quick nap while on the road up-island.

Mission: there’s a nook and there’s a crannie. Grab a toe-hold. Who’s your grannie?    

Mission: show love with paint. Lust. Harmony. Perhaps monogamy.

Mission: tree-like shapes, no leaves, starkness. How can I make it more interesting?  

Mission: create a focal point. It’s hot. No breezes but the sweet smell of moss on warm rock.

Mission: mix water and pigment onto paper – what will be will be.

Mission: capture the character of a tree worn and weathered, gnarly and regal.  

Mission: convey a sweltering hot, west coast day on the beach. How does that island look so distant while on other days it’s a stones-throw away?

Mission: paint loose. Paint wet on wet. Go less for representation. Create a suggestion.

Mission: create water with movement, crashing onto the rocks and shore. It’s water so use lots of water in my brush?

Mission: with a loaded brush and a white sheet of paper, capture the movement of wind.