South Africa and new studio!

Yo! So South Africa was cool. Stayed with a Major Phillip Erskine in a lovely Cape Dutch homestead in Ida's Valley. You wouldn't believe how beautiful it was, with an enormous garden to boot. While there, I painted a fair bit, and brought back four paintings I was relatively happy with, although I'll be the first to admit that they each need more work!

In other news, I've also moved in to a new studio in the gassworks in Fulham, which is awesome. I now have space to make a mess and get back in to painting "propper".

First up, I thought I'd work on one of those South Africa painings. This was done looking over the wall (and through the barbed wire) at a mountain next door. I kind of like the colors in this one, though my lovely studio-mate Zanny has rightfully pointed out that I need to at least push the sky back to pop out the mountain and the foreground. Still not finished, but figured I need to show something to give you guys an idea of what I'm up to : )

So... yeah... seriously expensive oil paints on wood:

(edit: have uploaded a more recent version of this painting!)