I seem to be both revisiting ideas from earlier this year and investigating new ones.  

I’m working on two separate strands at the moment and they each present a different challenge.  In the first, I’ve gone back to the themes and techniques I worked on for my exhibition in February.  There were lots of loose ends – things I wanted to take further – so I’m starting to develop a new series of prints in the Between the Lines and Transience series. 

I had to overcome a surprising reluctance to this.  Having done so much work before I think there was a sense of going back over the same ground.  I didn’t want to repeat myself.  But of course it doesn’t work that way and as soon as I actually started working on this again, new things emerged.   New marks, new thoughts.   It’s like my daily walk – when everything is so familiar I can take it for granted.  But when I pay attention, there is often something I hadn’t noticed before or something I hadn’t expected to see. 

The other strand is the work I’m doing on the Wicken Fen project.  This is very different.  At the moment everything is exploratory.  Sally and I have now made two visits to the Fen and I am playing with my photographs, drawings and making collages.   I have no idea where I’m going yet.  Well, perhaps I do, but it’s too soon to tell whether it will lead somewhere.

I'm reluctant to share too much yet.  These images give a flavour of how I'm working but none of them represent a fixed idea at this point.  I think what I'm really trying to do is generate lots of interesting beginnings.