Deciding ‘it’s not about the money’ (sorry to harp on, but I love that song!) has been a wonderful catalyst. I’ve been getting back to my painting roots and I’ve been painting purely for the love of the paint and colour and letting spontaneity and serendipity guide me. Yesterday for instance, I was looking at a colourful big abstract background and wondered where it was going – should I work on it, develop it? or was it finished already? And suddenly I saw the horses – on

February so far has been a delight - it's just bliss to be basking in dry and often sunny weather and with thoughts of Spring not far off now, I've been painting flowers and meadows to my heart's delight. The animals too of course and just now I'm working by request on a new painting in my The City Never Sleeps series which I'll hopefully list later today. I was thinking about painting when I woke this morning, and wrote this: Art is a path, a way, a life A part of me An ener