I was so happy I almost started painting again!
Things have moved along with the project and I see a spring and summer ahead of me working in the Thornden Woods with tree surgeons, bushcraft experts, woodland wardens and Kent Wildlife Trust Volunters and other unknows? Its actually really exciting with a considerable budget now behind it to deliver ‘The Wildart Trail’.
Something else about it is I can mostly tell when I am working to commission, and art created because you just cant help your self is rare. But every now and then something lands in your lap: so when your commissioner asks you if you want to design two totem poles from Douglas Firs cut down in the very woodland you walk your dog in every week, the designs will be cut by a specialist chain saw guy, you walk off down the road whistling and high fiving people you dont even know ! Some where I have a book on Tlingit or Alaskan art. I know this wont be about Alaskan tribes and I will have to localise it in content, and in design things in my own style.
I was so happy I even made some non commissioned art, not so far as starting painting again, but almost.
some photos of ‘stuff’ done in the Blean
