This is where I’ve come from and this is where I’m going.

Sell. Redo. Discard.

I’ve been hauling paintings out from cupboards and deciding which ones to sell, which to keep and which to discard.
Some of the paintings were done quite some years ago and many are truly awful, and fit only to be discarded or painted over. In those days I didn’t use the best materials and so some are impossible to recycle. But some I actually still like. I started painting seriously again back in 2012 after a long break and it’s interesting to see the different styles and subject matters. I had always thought it was a disjointed progression but now see how all those hundreds of paintings/sketches/scrawls have lead directly to what I’m doing today. Nothing is ever wasted.

These are all from around 2012/2014